The hell with cottage cheese; pass the Merlot

Did you hear about the scientists that fed huge doses of red wine extract to a bunch of obese mice? They found the chunky Mickeys got all the benefits of being thin - living healthier, longer lives - without dieting. That's hilarious.
I don't think I'll give up my salads and early-morning jogs just yet.
It's far too early to know if this would work in people, scientists said. Why not just loiter at the local wine shop and interview people who've purchased merlot, cabernet sauvignon and the like?
The study also found that the organs of the wine-treated fat mice looked normal when they shouldn't have. My favorite quote:
"They're chubby, but inside they look great," said Dr. David Sinclair of Harvard Medical School. "You have to pinch yourself to make sure that this is all real, but the study involved 27 different researchers each of whom had a 'eureka' moment."
You just don't expect a Harvard Medical School researcher to pinch himself or say "Eureka" after throwing a long Mouse Party, do you?
Another favorite quotation from the Associated Press story: the overfed, wine extract overloaded mice were "as agile and active on exercise equipment as their lean cousins." I can just picture them with their little mouse jogging suits and headbands now, running like the Six Million Dollar Man on the treadmill, a stem glass of chianti in paw.