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Drinking Red Wine 'Can Help You Live Longer and Healthier Life', Scientists Claim

By David Hough, Telegraph.co.uk

 American researchers found that a plant extract contained in the skin of red grapes helps protect the body against ageing.

They found the extract, resveratrol, reduced inflammation in humans that led to heart disease and strokes and Type 2 Diabetes.

It has already been shown to prolong life in yeast and animals such as roundworms and fruit flies.

But the researchers at the University of Buffalo, New York, writing in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, said they wanted to study its effect on humans.

They concluded that their findings indicated consuming resveratrol could help reduce the development of type 2 diabetes, ageing, heart disease and strokes.

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How olive oil helps 'switch off' genes which lead to conditions including heart disease and arthritis

 By Jenny Hope, Mail Online
 
   Olive oil's health-giving benefits stem from its ability to help 'switch off ' genes that inflame conditions ranging from heart disease to arthritis, claim researchers.

Their discovery shows how the much-praised Mediterranean diet can suppress chronic disorders.

Spanish researchers identified almost 100 genes whose inflammatory activity is dampened by consumption of olive oil, in particular extra virgin olive oil.  

Greeks are the biggest consumers of olive oil in the world - eating 20 times more than Britons - while Italians eat ten times as much.

Eating healthy mono-unsaturated fats such as olive oil is known to lower the risk of heart disease.

In Britain, which has one of the highest heart attack rates in the world, much higher levels of animal or saturated fats are eaten.  

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