and lower my cholesterol
Not only is beer fat free : it is also cholesterol free too ................... :Hurrahhh:

I'm around 16 st / 220 lbs now, slowly gaining since my 20's when I was a fit[ish] 12 st / 170 lbs.

I've always drank, and until recently it was always beer, converting to claret at the moment

I personally never put the weight on through the beer ................. it was those bloody kebabs and curries at three o'clock in the morning that did it for me

My mates where in 2 Para, they drank and smoked, ate anything that wandered too close to their plates, and were the fittest, meanest SoB's I've ever met.
Now they're all [those that are left] slowly going to seed, and increasing in weight :
NOT because of beer, because thay no longer train / exercise quite so damn hard.

in short :

Beer is a BEAUTIFUL invention, and I, for one, would like to meet the person who invented it, and find out just what his [it HAD to be a man] NEXT project is