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Stopping age-related muscle loss

Put the brakes on the loss with strategic exercise and protein intake

By Deborah Kotz

 |  Globe Staff  

  March 05, 2012

On a January morning, Tufts University exercise physiologists guided two seniors wearing light ankle weights through leg extensions, chair stands, and leg curls and then handed them a post-workout shake. It was part of a six-month study addressing the question: What’s the best way to reverse age-related muscle loss, which makes it hard to do such basic tasks as climb stairs, lift groceries, and walk around the block?

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