Lifting weights ‘good as running’
February 20, 2008
Lifting weights ‘good as running’
These could be as useful as a pair of running shoes
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Weight training could be as effective as endurance exercises like running when it comes to burning fat and warding off diabetes, a study suggests.
American scientists created mice which carried a gene that, when switched on, gave them muscles similar to those produced by weight training.
When the gene was off, the mice – which were fed a fast food diet – became obese and developed liver problems.
But when on, the same mice burned up fat, the Cell Metabolism study said.
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