Good news for athletic winos

Major newspapers (The Washington Post and The New York Times) report on a French study saying that resveratrol, a minor component of red wine, not only helps counter obesity and diabetes, but improves endurance.

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,

(NY Times)

Unfortunately, your dosage might need to increase a bit.

Humans would have to take hundreds of resveratrol pills sold in health food stores or drink hundreds of glasses of wine a day to get equivalent levels of the substance tested on the mice, neither of which would be safe.

(Wash. Post)

However, I'm willing to do my part for science. (test--to see if the date changes.)