Chocolate and red wine are good−in moderation
Eating chocolate and drinking red wine may be good for us—but you can have too much of a good thing.
Having a little of what we fancy is better for us than having more. Any benefits from consuming food and drink that are rich in procyanidins, a class of polyphenols, are reversed when we have too much.
Researchers at the Shibaura Institute of Technology in Japan have demonstrated that the benefits are more like an upside-down U-shaped curve than a continuing upward line in rats. This likely means that all the benefits are in the first glass of wine and are countered by the time we're drinking the third.
Front Nutr, 2022; doi: 10.3389/fnut.2022.969823
Three ways to wake up fresh and alert
Want to wake up fresh and alert in the morning? There are three things you can do to beat that groggy feeling first thing, scientists reckon.
You need to have exercised the day before, or you should sleep in longer and later, or your breakfast needs to be made up of complex carbs such as oatmeal, berries or whole-grain bread.
Researchers from the University of California at Berkeley came up with three ways to achieve a brighter start after they analyzed the lifestyles of 833 twins and unrelated people and monitored their sleeping habits, breakfasts and exercise levels
