Who Knew? Wine is Basically As Good As Going To the Gym

*Cancels gym membership*

21 March, 2018
Who Knew? Wine is Basically As Good As Going To the Gym

We're in full festive-season swing. Christmas is just days away, and it's likely most evenings between now and the big day will be booked up with some very important drinking sessions.

No time for the gym, then.

So we felt it was necessary to put all your worrying minds at ease that the lack of exercise plus the overindulgence of food will equal a new, larger you. Because this year some very important science was discovered: a glass of wine is basically just as healthy as an hour-long session in the gym.

What the hell have we been doing wasting all that time on the treadmill then, when we could have been doing some well-deserved drinking instead? What a joke.

The life-changing research took place at the University of Alberta in Canada. We always knew we liked the Canadians.

The researchers found that resveratrol, which is a compound contained in red wine, actually has a similar effect to that of exercise when it comes to health benefits.​ WELL, when you put it like that...

​ Resveratrol apparently improves physical performance, heart function and muscle strength.​ And let's not forget all the muscle power we're building when we raise and drop our arms regularly while drinking. 

​"Resveratrol could mimic exercise for them or improve the benefits of the modest amount of exercise that they can do," said the lead researcher ​Jason Dyck​.

There it is. In black and white. You can't fight facts, you know.

So I don't know about you, but I'm off for a long, hard session of drinking.

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Credit: Cosmopolitan
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