<p>Anyone see 60 minutes tonight? Starve your body of calories but don’t hold back on the red wine to age more slowly. Well, you need 1000 bottles per day but a pill is coming within 5 years.</p>
<p>Do you buy this?</p>
<p>I didn’t see it… can you give more details? Who was promoting this eating/drinking plan?</p>
<p>I didn’t see it- but one of my favorite beers is apparently 241 calories for a 12 oz bottle- [but so yummy](<a href=“http://www.morettibeer.com/home.asp”>http://www.morettibeer.com/home.asp</a>)</p>
<p>oh dear- another kind I like- Dogfish head 90 minute IPA- has 294 calories! ( but the 60 minute only has 209)
no wonder it is so filling.</p>
<p>I do use wine- but mostly to cook with & I suppose it is the stuff that is in grapes- not alcohol that is good for you. ;)</p>
<p>oh well.
I don’t like cake & I gotta have some vices.</p>
<p>Well, I didn’t see the story on TV, but my guess is that the RED wine was promoted because it contains compounds such as polyphenols, resvertatrol, and proanthocyanidin, which are all good for the heart. Obviously limiting your daily caloric intake is important in maintaining a healthy weight. Our heart (and other organs) have to work much harder when we are obese. This of course wears them out a lot quicker.</p>
<p>I have never counted calories- but an advantage to having muscles is- they need more fuel:)</p>
<p>I don’t think that limiting calories is as important as good nutrition- %0</p>
<p>I have never counted calories- but an advantage to having muscles is- they need more fuel:)</p>
<p>I don’t think that limiting calories is as important as good nutrition-
I have been taking EFA’s to increase memory - & have noticed that I don’t have to use my reading glasses very much- ( memory * might have * improved… it’s hard to tell )</p>
<p>The 60 Minutes story was actually two fold. The first element was indeed about Resvertatrol, which companies are now in the process of making into pill form and marketing. Taken in great concentration it has been shown to markedly slow the aging process.</p>
<p>I didn’t catch the whole of the second part which was about studies that have shown you will live longer, lower blood pressure and blood sugar by eating very few calories–essentially starving your body.</p>
<p>There’s a group of kids at Rice who are trying to put resveretral in beer through bioengineering. They were featured on NPR last fall.</p>
<p>I saw the show. I was watching with my 77 year old father who is recovering from surgery. I’m not sure I’m ready for him to live another 30 years. We’d be talking about an 85 year old taking care of a 107 year old. </p>
<p>Let me live healthy, but don’t let me live TOO long. I can’t afford it and I’m not sure the country could afford it either.</p>
<p>Although I have to say, I did identify with that pudgy, disheveled looking mouse…</p>
<p>Alcohol increases risk of breast cancer in women… that will cause weight loss!</p>
<p>I saw the segment and found it interesting. I think that the issues of eating less and the benefits of red wine are nothing new. Americans, in general, eat far too much and obesity rates are at an all time high. The red wine/healthy heart connection has been studied for a while now. Benefits of moderate drinking of red wine have been shown. </p>
<p>The new studies being conducted by these doctors in Cambridge are, as mentioned above, surrounding the use of resveretrol and how they have been able to show that it can extend life in yeast, and more recently in mice, by activating certain types of cells to prevent diseases found in aging. It’s pretty amazing, although I admit that I find this type of scientific research fascinating. The connection with eating less is that these cells are also ‘turned on’ when a human is hungry. It doesn’t mean you have to starve yourself but simply to eat less. They have basically zeroed in on the longevity gene. Their goal is to slow down the aging process.</p>
<p>They expect to have the pill form available within five years. Trials on humans are to begin soon. The potential of this drug has been realized by the large pharmaceutical companies and the small research lab established by these two doctors who were profiled on 60 Minutes was purchased by Glaxo recently for three quarters of a billion dollars.</p>