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Red wine for your heart

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Here’s a good reason to crack open a bottle from your wine cellar.

It turns out the same red wine compound that’s good for your heart may also be good for weight loss.

A study looked at 11 obese but otherwise healthy men for a month.

They treated some of the men with resveratrol, which is naturally found in red grapes.

The others got a placebo.

Researchers say the results showed the men dosed with resveratrol had a significantly improved metabolic rate, comparable to someone’s metabolism on a strict low-calorie diet.