Yet more evidence that red wine is good for you:
A component of red wine recently shown to help lab mice live longer also protects animals from obesity and diabetes and boosts their physical endurance, researchers reported yesterday.
The new research helps confirm and extend the possible benefits of the substance, resveratrol, and offers new insight into how it works — apparently by revving up the metabolism to make muscles burn more energy and work more efficiently. Mice fed large doses could run twice as far as they would normally.
In addition, the scientists for the first time produced evidence linking the biological pathway activated by the substance to human physiology, showing that the same genetic switch resveratrol mimics seems to naturally endow some people with faster metabolisms.
Appears like its time to stock up on a few bottles of this or maybe this or perhaps a little of this followed up by a bottle of this, or, if you want to save some money and still drink some great wine, this
November 17th, 2006 at 9:01 pm
Ha ha! Actually, the amount of resveratrol varies wildly between types of wine and vintages. It apparently is highest among red wines made from grapes grown in cool, moist climates (think Oregon and the river valleys of France, rather than arid California or Australia).
http://hubpages.com/hub/Resveratrol