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ASK GINGER - Does insulin store fat or build muscle or both?

By Ginger Vieira, Health Guide Monday, January 04, 2010
I hear and read about insulin completely unrelated to diabetes pretty often. Just like you said, insulin is responsible for both storing fat onto the body and for helping the body build muscle, but the balance between storing too much fat from too much insulin when you're trying to build muscle inste...
"We are what we repeatedly do."
Anonymous
Scott K. Johnson
1/ 4/10 9:30pm

Thank Ginger, great article.

 

Insulin plays a much bigger role than just helping us manage blood sugars.  I didn't know much about that until I started exercising more.

By Ginger Vieira, Health Guide— Last Modified: 06/11/11, First Published: 01/04/10