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When overweight men lose weight through exercise, they lose mostly fat and keep or even gain muscle, unlike dieting, which often causes muscle loss along with fat.
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Supporting (1)
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Body fat loss and compensatory mechanisms in response to different doses of aerobic exercise—a randomized controlled trial in overweight sedentary males
Randomized Controlled Trial
Human
2012 Sep 15Contradicting (0)
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No contradicting evidence found
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