Can Red Wine Help You Live Longer?

Drinking Red Wine Offers Benefits Similar to Low-Calorie Diet
By Kelli Miller Stacy
WebMD Health News
Reviewed by Elizabeth Klodas, MD, FACC



June 6, 2008 -- Here's a new reason to toast red wine: A natural compound called resveratrol, found in certain red wines, may trick the body into thinking it's getting fewer calories than it actually is -- and you don't need to overindulge to reap the reward.
Research published in the June 3 issue of the online, open-access journal Public Library of Science One (PLoS One) suggests that drinking red wine may offer many of the same benefits as a reduced-calorie diet.
A team of international researchers found that low doses of resveratrol slowed the aging process in middle-aged mice and improved their overall heart health. Specifically, the results observed in the resveratrol-fed mice mimicked those often seen with caloric restriction -- the practice of cutting 20%-30% of calories out of one's typical diet in an effort to improve health and prolong life. Numerous studies have linked caloric restriction to a longer, healthier life.
What's more, the study researchers discovered that resveratrol is active in much lower doses than previously thought. Until now, researchers believed that high doses of resveratrol -- impossible to obtain by drinking wine -- were necessary to ward off the unhealthy consequences of eating a high-fat, high-calorie diet.
"This brings down the dose of resveratrol toward the consumption reality mode," study researcher Richard Weindruch, a University of Wisconsin-Madison professor of medicine and a researcher at the William S. Middleton Memorial Veterans Hospital, says in a news release.
The researchers believe their findings provide strong evidence that resveratrol can improve one's quality of life and call the idea of low-dose resveratrol supplementation -- in the form of wine or perhaps one day a pill -- "a robust intervention in the retardation of cardiac aging."
Drinking one or two glasses of red wine each day can protect against cardiovascular disease in certain people. However, more than that can result in negative effects that outweigh the positive ones. For example, drinking too much alcohol can raise the levels of triglycerides in some people.
Finally, drinking red wine does not completely negate poor lifestyle choices. The calorie-restricted mice had lower rates of cancer. There was no comparable reduction in the incidence of tumors in the resveratrol-supplemented mice. So attaining and maintaining a normal weight, eating a sensible diet, and engaging in regular exercise remain important components for living a long and healthy life.

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I guess - I will be showered with green bricks for that importent info!

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Blooning system - it does have something against me....

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Ahh thats gooood news Do ya reckon it'll be ok if i substitute the red wine for a beer not keen on red wine For that you should be wallowing in green bricks

Now all i need is for chocolate and ice cream to be just as good

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Anele is it still low calorie if you have 3 bottles like i do when i go out lmao.

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I reckon it's the more you drink the better, bit like water

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Paula
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lol I dont like wine if only it applied to chocolate aswell I'd be as thin as a rake! OH drinks too much! red wine though and he never seems to put on weight so it could be true!

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i agree but could i have jd instead of wine or could i have both

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agreed

Course you can i'm thinking now anything with alchohol must be good as long as you like it, not magners though coz that tastes like rat pee

think we're obviously gonna have to do some real research on this, what do ya reckon

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