WEIRD STUFF

Grape juice beats as good as Viagra

Red grape juice could act as an alternative to Viagra. The fruit drink reduces the risk of erectile dysfunction by up to 80 per cent, while many other drinks have little effect on the issue.

Scientists are now encouraging men over the age of 40 to drink at least five glasses every week.

Experts at Tianjin Medical University General Hospital in China studied the drinking habits of 1,500 middle-age men and compared the data with how many reported arousal problems.

The findings showed that out of nine separate drinks, only grape juice seemed to have a significant impact down below -- with red stronger than white.

This is because red varieties of grapes have higher levels of phenols-- plant chemicals that maintain the health of the arteries and prevent the restriction of blood flow to the genitals.

A report said: "We suggest men -- especially those over 40 -- may benefit from consuming grape juice more than five times a week to reduce the risk of erectile dysfunction."

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Study says men struggle when wives earn big bucks

Men are miserable if their wives earn more money than them. Experts at the University of Durham studied the incomes and mental health of heterosexual couples in Sweden and discovered that female breadwinners led to a higher risk of mental health issues for both parties -- but particularly for males.

The researchers said: "The share of couples where the wife outearns the husband is increasing globally.

"Crossing the threshold where the wife starts earning more significantly increases the probability of receiving a mental health diagnosis.

"In the most restrictive specification, the likelihood increases by approximately eight per cent for the whole sample and by 11 per cent for men."

The experts did not look into possible reasons behind the findings.

Study leader Demid Getik told MailOnline: "From earlier literature, it seems it's likely due to a consistent preference for the male partner to earn more in a couple.

"It's a bit more difficult to say to what extent that preference comes from women or men.

"What is interesting, though, is that you still see this in a country like Sweden, which prides itself on its gender parity."

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Stroke survivor says he returned from the dead

A man who died for three minutes thinks he "saw what hell is like".

According to a social media post created by a friend of the unnamed man, he had suffered a stroke and was pronounced dead by medics, but "woke up" after experiencing a "cold" version of the underworld, which is often depicted as a fiery atmosphere.

The friend wrote on Reddit: "He remembers the stroke, and being wheeled to the ambulance on a stretcher. Then he felt like he was floating under ice-cold water and it was dark, but he wasn't really thinking or feeling anything emotionally, just existing and knowing it was very, very cold and he couldn't see."

The friend added that doctors were "freaked out" at his sudden resurrection, and he later decided that what he had experienced must have been a "preview" of hell.

The post added: "Then he woke up, and the EMTs were kind of freaked out, because his heart had stopped long enough that they figured he was done.

"At some point in the following days he became convinced that what he experienced was hell minus the knowledge of suffering, like a toned-down preview, and thought it was a warning for him to change his life."