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STRENGTH TRAINING IMPROVES BONE HEALTH

Source: Exercise Etc.

Summary:

A study in Archives of Internal Medicine compared 50 early post-menopausal women who exercised for 26 months with 33 similar women who did not exercise

Exercise group improved isometric trunk strength and VO2 max as well as lipid profile

Bone density increased in the exercise group but declined in the non-exercise group

Comment: Note that this study was long enough to give exercise time to work, and it did.

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