Yes, Red Wine

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Yes, Red Wine Holds Answer. Check Dosage.
The New York Times Nicholas Wade November 2, 2006
Presented by Paula Chuchro
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Resveratrol

• Reasearchers report that resveratrol can offset
  the negative effects of a high calorie diet.
• Resveratrol is found on the skin of grapes and
  red wine

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The Experiment

• One group of mice was put on a diet where 60 of
  the calories came from fat.
• Another group of mice was also fed this high fat
  diet, but with a large daily dose of resveratrol.
• A final control group was set up of standard
  healthy diet mice.

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The Results

• The group with the fatty diet, but no resveratrol
  soon grew oversized livers and were beginning to
  show signs of diabetes.
• The mice enjoying a fatty diet and reservatrol,
  showed lower levels of glucose and insulin in the
  blood and had normally sized livers.
• In fact, the reservatrol mice outlived those just
  on a fatty diet by several months.

winner!
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Problems

• The mice's intake was 24 milligrams of
  resveratrol per killogram. A bottle of red wine
  contains 1.5-3 milligrams. An average person
  would have to drink about a 1000 bottles.
• The theory about why resveratrol works is still
  unproven.
• Its effect on humans is not yet certain.
• According to Dr. Sinclair resveratrol works best
  at activating the SIRT-1 gene (silent information
  regulator which helps cells live longer), this
  also is not proven and needs to be published.

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What's going to happen?

• Is a resveratrol supplement (pill) something that
  could become common in the next few years?
• Will the use of resveratrol make obesity more
  accepted and prevalent in our society?