Zeno's Bar & Grill

Take that, you tofu-eating calorie-restrictors. Here's the perfect response to Tuesday's article extolling the virtues of restricted calorie diets in extending lifespan and quality of life. Thursday's New York Times reports that high doses of a substance found in red wine allowed mice on a high fat diet to live as long as their normal diet counterparts with little or no ill-health effects.

According to the article, "They had all the pleasures of gluttony, but paid none of the price." Sounds good to me.

Unfortunately, to get the same effect, you'd have to drink about a thousand bottles of red wine a day. I guess they're going to have to work out some of the bugs, but in the meantime, as of the experts interviewed for the article reccommends, "Have another glass of pinot noir..." Okay, then.

--Melanie