Monday, November 23, 2009

Will eating more protein make me look like a bodybuilder?

From Shape, November 2008:
"When women hear that body-builders follow high-protein diets and drink protein shakes, they think they're going to get huge muscles if they eat that way too", says Leslie Bonci, R.D., director of sports nutrition at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. But what's bulking up the weight lifters' biceps--and everything else--isn't the food they're eating but the kind of workout they're doing."

"You'd have to train for hours in the gym, lifting very heavy weights, to see a major change in your lean muscle mass," says Bonci. "And still the average woman will never get too beefy because she has far lower levels of testosterone, a key hormone for muscle growth, than a man does."

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