Sentences with phrase «lean tissue mass by»

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The reason it does this is by increasing the amount of lean muscle mass you carry, which requires more energy to maintain and repair than fat tissue.

At base line and every two months thereafter, her height was measured with the same stadiometer and her body composition was measured by dual - energy x-ray absorptiometry (QDR 1000W, Hologic, Waltham, Mass.) to determine the bone mineral mass and the amounts of fat and lean soft tissue.11 Spontaneous energy intake was measured with the use of a standardized test meal (containing 1670 kcal of energy) given at noon, after the patient had been fasting since breakfast.

Your body will react by slowing your metabolism and burning up lean tissue (like your muscle mass).

Clearly, this is an incorrect statement since catabolism of lean body mass is reduced by ketone bodies (possibly through suppression of the activity of the branched - chain 2 - oxo acid dehydrogenase), which and probably explains the preservation of lean tissue observed during very - low - carbohydrate diets.