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a glass of red wine a day keeps a gym membership away if you are one of those people who loves red wine and hates exercise this might be excellent news but is it actually news factor myth a glass of red wine is equivalent to an hour of exercise but this is without a doubt a myth why well that goes back to how the methanol II came to be back in 2012 a research study discovered that a compound found in red wine resveratrol improves skeletal muscle strength and cardiac muscle during exercise training in rats and therefore enhance their exercise performance fast-forward two years later and the media burst with numerous headlines like science says a glass of red wine may be equivalent to an hour at the gym so although it's difficult to pinpoint the exact cause of the myth somehow something got lost in translation we can be fairly certain that it arose due to a misinterpretation by a reporter. who was either genuinely misinformed or who thought the headline would attract more readers to ...