Archive for October 29, 2008

Cognitive Dissonance

I’ve already written why exercise does not help us much with weight loss.  M.R.C. Greenwood found in 1981 that lipoprotein lipase (LPL) activity increases in muscles during exercise (thus enhancing the absorption of fatty acids by muscles for fuel) and decreases when the workout is over.  At the same time, LPL activity decreases in fat [...]

Posted on October 29, 2008 at 3:05 pm by Charles · Permalink · Leave a comment
In: Insulin, Obesity

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