Must it be true? I think that up there with the Disciples, what these two utter is as good as the Gospel.
Okay, except for Oprah's snafu with James Frey's book "A Million Little Pieces." But, I understand, they kissed and made up. And, she was forgiven for her trespass. Anyway…

The endorsement, it seems, is for a product called Resveratol. If you have alot of time on your hands right now, you might want to watch this segment from 60 minutes Drink to Your Health.

Water is usually the touted beverage of choice, it hydrates, cleanses, and costs zero. Unless you are a designer water drinker, which makes absolutely no sense to me, and you pay for your hydration.

This new life prolonging, anti aging promise comes to us from the properties within red wine. As Morley so aptly points out, we've known for a short while what the French have known forever. Red wine is good for you. It's a property within the wine that seems to have been extracted, soon to be in a little pill form, that these scientists are all excited about. As they should be, the fountain of youth formula portends a great deal of compensation. Really, would Ponce de Leon have ventured into the open seas if not for some vague notion about his mortality? He never found it, by the way, but he did find Florida, the mecca for the aging. Do you see the irony there?

Right now, it appears that one would have to drink about 1000 bottles a day to achieve the effect the scientists are working on in the lab. Since that's about 999 more than I am capable of imbibing, I just will have to wait.

In the meantime, L'Chaim, Salud, Skoal, Cheers.