Pump it up! Weightlifting 'cuts diabetes risk in women'

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-25728681


Lifting weights helps maintain muscle mass

Women who pump iron in the gym cut their risk of developing diabetes, say researchers.

The findings come from a study that tracked the health of nearly 100,000 US nurses over a period of eight years.

Lifting weights, doing press-ups or similar resistance exercises to give the muscles a workout was linked with a lower risk of diabetes, the work in PLoS Medicine shows.

Adults are already advised to do such exercise at least twice a week.

[SheilaT]

1. I'm going to guess that

any sort of exercise cuts diabetes risk.

One of our collective problems is that we don't exercise enough.