The underappreciated role of muscle in health and disease
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It is imperative that factors directly related to muscle mass, strength, and metabolic function be included in future studies designed to demonstrate optimal lifestyle behaviors throughout the life span, including physical activity and diet.About:
This article is published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition.The article was published on 2006-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 1197 citations till now.read more
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Physical fitness in childhood and adolescence: a powerful marker of health
TL;DR: In this paper, a review of the latest developments with regard to physical fitness and several health outcomes in young people is presented, and the authors suggest that health promotion policies and physical activity programs should be designed to improve cardiorespiratory fitness, but also two other physical fitness components such us muscular fitness and speed/agility.
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Sarcopenia as a determinant of chemotherapy toxicity and time to tumor progression in metastatic breast cancer patients receiving capecitabine treatment.
Carla M. Prado,Vickie E. Baracos,Linda J. McCargar,Tony Reiman,Marina Mourtzakis,Katia Tonkin,John R. Mackey,Sheryl Koski,Edith Pituskin,Michael B. Sawyer +9 more
TL;DR: Sarcopenia is a significant predictor of toxicity and TTP in metastatic breast cancer patients treated with capecitabine, and the potential use of body composition assessment to predict toxicity and individualize chemotherapy dosing is raised.
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Skeletal Muscle: A Brief Review of Structure and Function
TL;DR: This review discusses the various domains of muscle structure and function including its cytoskeletal architecture, excitation-contraction coupling, energy metabolism, and force and power generation.
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Dietary protein recommendations and the prevention of sarcopenia.
TL;DR: Clinicians should stress the importance of ingesting a sufficient amount of protein with each meal to preserve skeletal muscle mass in ageing and propose a novel and specific dietary approach to prevent or slow down muscle loss with ageing.
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Association between muscular strength and mortality in men: prospective cohort study
Jonatan R. Ruiz,Xuemei Sui,Felipe Lobelo,James R. Morrow,Allen W. Jackson,Michael Sjöström,Steven N. Blair +6 more
TL;DR: Muscular strength is inversely and independently associated with death from all causes and cancer in men, even after adjusting for cardiorespiratory fitness and other potential confounders.
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Exercise training and nutritional supplementation for physical frailty in very elderly people
Maria A. Fiatarone,Evelyn F. O'Neill,Nancy D. Ryan,Karen M. Clements,Guido R. Solares,Miriam E. Nelson,Susan B. Roberts,Joseph J. Kehayias,Lewis A. Lipsitz,William J. Evans +9 more
TL;DR: High-intensity resistance exercise training is a feasible and effective means of counteracting muscle weakness and physical frailty in very elderly people, in contrast to multi-nutrient supplementation without concomitant exercise, which does not reduce muscle weakness orPhysical frailty.