It seems that mice make the exploits of Lee Majors seem quite ordinary, albeit with organic style bionics this time.

The latest mouse miracle has to do with red wine.

Thanks to the stressed disposition of our friends the vines, the unhappy grapes produce a chemical under the skin called resveratrol. This appears in red wine in spades.

Resveratrol extract was fed to lethargic, lardy couch potato mice who ate Big Mac Meals for breakfast. Amazingly it was shown that despite the still rotund appearance of the creatures, their insides were as fresh and fat free as their thin cousins who ate salad all day between exercise obsessions.

If applicable to us humans, it looks like you might be able to be very big on the outside, and beautiful on the inside, the source of your next gargantuan meal, not its implications, your only worry.

The classic fast food question could become 'would you like wine with that'. After all drinking Pinot out of a paper cup is already demonstrated very well by Miles in 'Sideways'.

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