Sunday, November 19, 2006

Component of wine increases endurance, controls weight gain

There's yet another reason to drink wine or to take supplements made from a reservatrol, a natural component of wine: Increased endurance.

Following on the heels of a study suggesting reservatrol is very beneficial in weight loss, a new study shows that the substance can increase endurance and tone the heart.

"Resveratrol makes you look like a trained athlete without the training," Johan Auwerx at the Institute of Genetics and Molecular and Cellular Biology in Illkirch, France, recently said.

This most recent study aslo shows that reservatrol in large amounts can control weight gain even under high-calorie intake by significantly increasing the number of mitochondria in muscle cells.

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