{"id":3576,"date":"2007-06-13T16:45:05","date_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:45:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/2007\/06\/13\/for-the-good-of-humanity\/"},"modified":"2007-06-13T16:45:05","modified_gmt":"2007-06-13T21:45:05","slug":"for-the-good-of-humanity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/2007\/06\/for-the-good-of-humanity\/","title":{"rendered":"For the good of humanity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"bi\">Spanish sisters who drank beer for 45 days straight as part of a medical research project are part of a growing trend to study nuns whose unique healthy, celibate lifestyle makes them ideal for such purposes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">Every year hundreds of Catholic nuns are weighed, measured, poked and prodded in the name of medical research, the US ABC News reports.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">In a study recently conducted by the Centre for Information on Beer and Health in Spain, 50 nuns drank a half-litre of beer every day for 45 days. Six months later they took 400 milligrams of hops, reported Reuters.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">The study found that cholesterol rates fell by 6 percent in those sisters with high levels.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bi\">&quot;We did it for the good of humanity,&quot; Sr Almerinda Alvarez told the newspaper El Pais.<\/p>\n<p class=\"blog\">Where can I sign up for a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cathnews.com\/news\/706\/63.php\" target=\"_blank\">study like that<\/a>! Purely in the interest of advancing science of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish sisters who drank beer for 45 days straight as part of a medical research project are part of a growing trend to study nuns whose unique healthy, celibate lifestyle&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.splendoroftruth.com\/curtjester\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}