Muscling In On Type 2 Diabetes

Saturday, March 7, 2009 - 18:49 in Health & Medicine

Research by kinesiology investigators has shown that muscle in extremely obese individuals produces large amounts of a protein called myostatin, which normally inhibits muscle growth -- suggesting that for Type 2 diabetics, and the very obese, the task of getting healthy may be more difficult than initially thought.

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