 A DIET recommending you eat 100g of chocolate a day and drink red wine, which will add six years to your life - is this for real?
Scientists in Australia and The Netherlands have come up with a diet they claim will cut a person's risk of heart disease by 78 per cent. It involves daily consumption of 150ml of red wine, which has been found to cut heart disease risk by 32 per cent.
| Bartender! Another Ruff 'n' Red, please! The old ticker's acting up... |
Chocaholics line up, because you have to consume 100g of dark chocolate per day, an amount the scientists calculate will reduce blood pressure. You have to eat four meals of fish each week (each 114g), which is said to reduce your heart disease risk by 14 per cent. The diet also includes a daily total of 400g of fruit and vegetables, also proven to cut blood pressure, and 68g of almonds to cut cholesterol. You also have to consume 2.7g of garlic per day to reduce your cholesterol levels.
| "Whoa, honey! Do you have to get the cholesterol levels so low on a sex night?" |
In a paper published in the British Medical Journal, scientists claim that if all these foods are combined in a diet they will lower the risk of heart disease by 78 per cent. The research shows men who stuck to this diet would gain an extra six years of life and have an extra nine years free from heart disease. Women would gain an extra 4.8 years of life and have an extra eight years without heart disease.
I can't help thinking about Woody Allen's Sleeper. Now all we need is a study of the health benefits of tobacco. |