How a glass of red wine could PREVENT you from putting on weight

If you want to avoid gaining weight, it may be time to ditch the skipping rope and grab a corkscrew instead.

For U.S. experts have found a compound in red wine that can help control obesity.

The substance, piceatannol, delays the generation of young fat cells and prevents them from growing into mature ones.

It is also thought to protect the body from heart and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as cancer.

The compound blocks insulin’s ability to activate genes that carry out further stages of fat cell formation.

The agent found in wine is also thought to protect the body from heart and neurodegenerative diseases and cancer.

The groundbreaking research was carried out at Purdue University, Indiana, USA.

Lead researcher Dr Kee-Hong Kim said: 'In the presence of piceatannol you can see delay or complete inhibition of young fat cells.

'Piceatannol alters the timing of gene expressions, gene functions and insulin action during adipogenesis - the process in which young fat cells become mature fat cells.'

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Red Wine May Get Thumbs up for Br*ast Cancer

The latest research conducted jointly by Italian researchers collaborating with the Americans indicating that Resveratrol blocks estrogen receptors that make br*ast cancer grow, is perhaps the first study to claim positive effects of red wine against cancer but it must not make women to rush to the nearby wine bar yet, warns Subhash Arora.

The finding of the study published in the October, 2011 edition of the FASEB Journal is important for women whose br*ast cancer becomes resistant to hormonal therapy.

For the study, the scientists tested the effect of the red wine ingredient Resveratrol in br*ast cancer cell lines in the laboratory. They compared the resveratrol treated cells to those left untreated, finding drastic reductions of estrogen receptors that they also discovered was a direct result of the red wine ingredient.

The br*ast cancer cells showed significantly slower growth compared to the cells left untreated.

"Resveratrol is a potential pharmacological tool to be exploited when br*ast cancer become resistant to the hormonal therapy," said Sebastiano Andò, a researcher involved in the work from the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Calabria in Italy.

However, Gerald Weissmann, M.D., Editor-in-Chief of The FASEB Journal warns that women shouldn’t take resveratrol supplements or start drinking red wine to treat br*ast cancer, according to examiner.com.

According to the American Cancer Society, even one drink per day increases the risk of br*ast cancer and the risk gets bigger with more drinks. According to the editorial message of the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, "from a standpoint of cancer risk, the message could not be clearer. There is no level of alcohol consumption that can be considered safe."

The research though encouraging, must be treated with caution and as academic for the time being, according to delWine. The researchers did not study the effects of red wine, but rather the effects of one chemical in a test tube. A lot more studies are needed before one gives any medical opinion

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