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Nature 444, 280-281 (16 November 2006) | doi:10.1038/nature05308
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Medicine: Grapes versus gluttony
Matt Kaeberlein1 & Peter S. Rabinovitch1
Abstract
A compound found in red grapes called resveratrol improves the health and lifespan of mice on a high-calorie diet. This is potentially good news for overweight humans. Does it bode well for the rest of us too?
Bacchus (Dionysus to the Greeks) has been long out of style, but may be granting new favours — particularly if you long to be one of those people who can seemingly eat whatever they want, whenever they want, without having to worry about the consequences. A paper by Baur et al.1 on page 337 of this issue suggests that guilt-free gluttony might not be a fantasy*.
- Matt Kaeberlein and Peter S. Rabinovitch are in the Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
kaeber@u.washington.edu
petersr@u.washington.edu
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