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According to a study from the University of California, high fat diets prevent exercising mice from enlarging their muscles. Exercised mice who consumed a low fat diet, high carb diet had substantially larger muscles than those who exercised on high fat diet.

If these findings work the same in humans, it would mean that high fat diets not only make us fatter, they also keep us from growing muscles. Full fat cells and consuming saturated fats turn on your immunity to cause inflammation which can prevent the body from making protein necessary for growing muscles. High fat saturated diets also block insulin receptors and prevent the body from responding to insulin, which is necessary for muscles to develop from intense exercise.

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