Increased muscle mass may lower risk of pre-diabetes: Study shows building muscle can lower person's risk of insulin resistance

Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 09:30 in Health & Medicine

A recent study has found that the greater an individual's total muscle mass, the lower the person's risk of having insulin resistance, the major precursor of type 2 diabetes.

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