‘Medical Miracle Beverage’ Red Wine Helps You Lose Weight and So Much More

The latest reports from agriculture speak to a very early wine grape harvest and another quality vintage to come. That reality is playing out against a backdrop of more great news about red wine published in the International Journal of Obesity.

Newsmax is reporting that a component of red wine "turns flabby white fat into fat-blasting brown fat."

Researchers at Washington State University fed mice a high-fat diet, but some of the mice also received resveratrol, which amounted to 0.1 percent of their daily diet -- or the human equivalent of two or three servings of fruit. The rest of the mice served as a control group. Those that received resveratrol changed their excess white fat into energy-burning brown or beige fat, and gained 40 percent less weight than control mice.

The WSU study wasn't the first to connect the consumption of red wine with weight loss. A study published earlier this year in the Journal of Nutritional Biochemistry found that ellagic acid, a chemical found in dark-colored grapes, inhibits the growth of fat cells and keeps new ones from forming. Drinking grape juice made from red grapes might even be beneficial.

Other studies have likewise shown red wine to be beneficial to your health almost to the point of being a side show cure all snake oil. Studies show red wine: