Thursday, November 23, 2006

Have another glass of red wine this Thanksgiving

This New York Times article explains why endurance athletes should drink more (red wine, that is.) "An ordinary laboratory mouse will run one kilometer on a treadmill before collapsing from exhaustion. But mice given resveratrol, a minor component of red wine and other foods, run twice as far. They also have energy-charged muscles and a reduced heart rate, just as trained athletes do, according to an article published online in Cell by Johan Auwerx and colleagues at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Illkirch, France." http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/17/health/17drug.html

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