Study: Fat, boozing mice stay healthy

[ECH1969]

Huge amounts of a red wine extract seemed to help obese mice eat a high-fat diet and still live a long and healthy life, suggests a new study that some experts are calling "landmark" research.

The big question is, can it work the same magic in humans?

Scientists say it's far too early to start swilling barrels of red wine. But they are calling the latest research promising and even "spectacular."

The study by the Harvard Medical School and the National Institute of Aging shows that heavy doses of red wine extract lowers the rate of diabetes, liver problems and other fat-related ill effects in obese mice.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/conditions/11/01/fat.fightingwine.ap/index.html

[Viva_La_Revolution]

1. wine gives me a hangover...

how are the Southern-Comfort-swilling mice doing?

[EFerrari]

8. LOL! I've been pretty healthy on all kinds of wine

and have the fat to prove it.

What about the tofu and diet tonic drinking mice? Please tell me they're shriveling up and dying!

:rofl:

[Deja Q]

2. How about the fat boozing mice with no love in their lives?

Many reports say those mice die of heart attacks and depression and other ailments earlier in life! :evilgrin:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

13. They are too drunk to care.

[truthisfreedom]

3. we should be able to get red wine extract from all of that cheap crappy

hangover-y red wine. imagine if we could get it in pill form...

and another thing, it's unfair to call them "boozing" when they aren't drinking booze. sheesh.

[Megahurtz]

5. Just drink the good stuff.

Forget the cheap headache Wine!

[Graybeard]

4. Is this another Christopher Hitchens thread?...n/t

[Anakin Skywalker]

6. Sounds Like a Rush Limbaugh Report.

[goforit]

25. roflmao!!!

[Megahurtz]

7. Lol!

At least they won't care about being test subjects.

[dicknbush]

9. How about eating Fat druken mice what does that do for you?

Sorry!

[Auggie]

10. Red wine extract? What the hell is that?

[Auggie]

11. This report fails to mention what percentage of alcohol was present

If it's wine extract, I would guess minimal.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

12. What happens to the cats who eat them?

I'm sure fat, drunken mice are easy to catch, so it I suppose it would be non-adaptive for mice to stuff their little faces and drink themselves silly as a routine practice. But if there were a lot of such mice around, and cats ate them, would the cats get coronary artery disease from all that greasy food? And would they get wasted, too?

[TaleWgnDg]

14. OMG . . . McDonald's will opt for a wine license??? n/t

[Jamastiene]

15. I'll drink to that.

So, I can eat all I want as long as I drink all I want too? I'm there.

[Az_lefty]

16. Oh baby, I'm there!

:toast:

[Binka]

23. Me Too! My Wine Rack Is Always Full Baby!

I have a few mice hanging on it as well LOL!

[Cooley Hurd]

17. That's good news for Congressman John Sweeney (R-NY):

I guess he's gonna have a long life (albeit, NOT as a congressman)...:rofl:

[photogirl12]

28. hahahaha

Good one Cooley Hurd!!!:rofl:

[xchrom]

18. it better be Freedom Wine they're drinking! n/t

[Ferretherder]

19. Weeelllllp, that settles THAT!

I now know that I should live.......

.....FOOOOORRRRREEEEEVVVVVVEEEEERRRRRRRRRR!

[The2ndWheel]

20. Why are we making mice fat and drunk?

Oh, that's right, human progress.

[DemoTex]

21. Why are we making mice fat and drunk?

So that the mice can run for congress as Repubs!

[KAZ]

22. "it's far too early to start swilling barrels of red wine"

Great. I wish someone would have told me.

[bmbmd]

24. This is a good time for a Bible quotation-

"Take thou a little wine for the sake of thy stomach, and no longer water only." ITimothy 5:23

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

26. I was a fat, boozing mouse in my younger years

and I'm here to tell you it did NOT keep me healthy. They fail to take into account a minor component of wine called "alcohol". An excess intake of that ingredient more than offsets any other "benefit" of large amounts of wine.

Trust me on this one. I tried it.

[drm604]

27. That's why they're talking about extracts.

You can purchase extracts that don't contain any alcohol but do contain concentrated resveratrol, which seems to be the ingredient which produces the health and longevity effects. A number of months back I posted a link to a Scientific American article on this very subject. If I can find my original post I'll link to it from here.

Okay, here's the link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=228x18690