I don't think that's just a Guiness thing. My German great-grandmother
advised my mother to drink stout to make better breast milk.

toodles, gretchen

--On Wednesday, December 17, 2003 12:32 AM +0000 bogus address
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(Or, in general, how Guinness managed to entrench its
reputation as a health drink. My earliest memory of the stuff is of
my father at home c. 1957 recovering after an operation, drinking it
because he'd been told it was good for him - he hardly drank any beer
at other times and was not particularly gullible).