Red wine for CR?

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Hi All,

Is it not current " wisdom " that taking more calories from alcoholic drinks

predisposes weight gain due to taking in the extra calories?

The below not pdf-available paper appears to counter this type of thinking.

Body fat was decreased also, as moderate intake of red wine led to spontaneous

CR.

Bargallo MV, Grau AA, Fernandez-Larrea JD, Anguiano GP, Segarra MC, Rovira MJ,

Ferre

LA, Olive MB.

Moderate red-wine consumption partially prevents body weight gain in rats fed a

hyperlipidic diet.

J Nutr Biochem. 2005 Sep 15; [Epub ahead of print]

PMID: 16169198

Red wine is a beverage that can exert a broad spectrum of health-promoting

actions

both in humans and laboratory animal models if consumed moderately. However,

information about its effect on body weight is scarce. We have evaluated the

effect

of moderate red wine consumption on body weight and energy intake in male Zucker

lean rats fed a hypercaloric diet for 8 weeks. For this purpose, we used three

5-animal groups: a high-fat diet group (HFD), a high-fat-diet red-wine-drinking

group (HFRWD), and a standard diet group (SD). After 8 weeks, the HFRWD group

had a

lower body weight gain (175.66 +/- 2.78% vs 188.22 +/- 4.83%; P<.05) and lower

energy intake (269.45 +/- 4.02 KJ/animal vs day vs 300.81 +/- 4.52

KJ/animal.day;

P<.05) and had less fat mass at epidymal location respect to the whole body

weight

(0.014 +/- 0.001 0.017 +/- 0.001; P<.05) than the HFD group. However, the red

wine

didn't moodified the fed efficiency 0.012 +/- 0.001 g/KJ for HFRWD group versus

0.013 +/- 0.001 g/KJ for the HFD one (P=.080). These findings, though

preliminary,

show that moderate red wine intake can prevent the increase of body weight by

modulating energy intake in a rat diet-induced model of obesity.

Al Pater, PhD; email: old542000@...

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