David Sinclair and his Harvard colleagues fed high doses of resveratrol, a molecule found in grape skins and red wine, to laboratory mice eating a high-calorie diet.

Although the animals grew fat, they did not suffer from the diseases of obesity that affected mice eating the same food without resveratrol. Indeed they were as healthy as lean mice on a low-calorie diet.

That research, (for what it is worth,) gives hope to us blokes of large girth, who fancy a drink of the vino; I think Fat Boozers will soon rule the earth.

October 2006