To Red Wine and Long Life!

According to recent studies, red wine with resveratrol, may be the fabled elixir of long life.

Experts have long puzzled over the fact that the French can eat food soaked in saturated fat, and yet have astonishingly healthy hearts. Apparently resveratrol, which is known to have anti-cancer and anti-inflammatory properties, can also mimic the effects of calorie restriction to combat the effects of aging.

I’m sorry, but when I read news like this, the only image that comes to mind, is these phenomenally happy mice drinking as much red wine as they like, with no worries about excess calories or drunk driving, and then we act surprised that they seem to live longer??? Just like the French, they’ve found the fountain of youth, relax and take it easy!

Come to think of it, a better image is a smiling mouse doing the back stroke in a kidney-shaped pool of red wine! What self-respecting mouse would want to die, when stuck in an experiment like that? Just like the French and Italians I observed while living there, (O.K. so this isn’t a scientific sample) these people know how to relax and take it easy like no American I have ever known. Their attitude is palpable when you’re there, and I for one loved it!

In addition, all of this talk about ways to live longer seems to conveniently skip over the larger question, do you really WANT to live forever? If you feel constantly inadequate for being unable to live up to all the media hype in a culture that seems absolutely driven to DO more, BE more and SPEND more, why would you want to be here forever? To spend all that money you made before you die?

Americans have got their priorities all wrong. Don’t live longer, live better!

R-E-L-A-X a little and smell the red wine…or better yet, taste it regularly!

Tagged as: Driven Americans, French longevity, Italian longevity, long life, mental health, Relax, resveratrol