Increasing Muscle Mass can Reduce Risk of Diabetes

Fri, 29 Jul 2011
Increasing muscle mass from resistance training can reduce your likelihood of developing type 2 diabetes.

It is not your weight that just matters, it is the proportion of your weight that is muscle mass.

Researchers studied 13, 644 adults as part of the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey III who were not pregnant and had a minimum body mass index (BMI) of 16.5. The researchers wished to explore how muscle mass impacts insulin resistance, which is a precursor to diabetes.

For every ten per cent increase in the skeletal muscle index (the ratio of muscle mass to total body weight), insulin resistance is reduced by 11 per cent and prediabetes is reduced by 12%.

Prediabetes is a condition whereby an individual's blood sugar is higher than normal, yet not high enough for the person to have diabetes.

Should you commence an exercise regime and not incur any weight loss, you should not despair as your fat has not getting converted to muscle.

Even if you do not lose weight, fat will convert to muscle.

Resistance exercise can also play a part in enabling type 2 diabetics use the insulin they produce better.

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