5. Exercise Can Change The Way Your Fat Cells Behave Themselves
The amount of fat your body carries is partially predetermined by your genetics, but research done at the Lund University Diabetes Centre in Sweden found that exercise can actually play a part in turning on and off specific genes having to do with fat storage.
These researchers sucked fat cells out of dozens of healthy but sedentary Swedish men and then held the men to a six-month regimen of spinning or aerobics classes two times a week. At the end of the study, the men had dropped weight and were healthier.
But moreover, using technology that analyzes the genome, they could see that epigenetic changes had taken place in 7,000 genes, including those genes linked to type 2 diabetes and obesity, as well as changes in fat storage in fat cells.
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