Smoking Impairs Muscle Growth
Remember the Marlboro Man? He was a pretty tough looking hombre, wasn't he?
And how about those male movie stars from the golden age of cinema; they looked like pretty tough with those cigarettes dangling from their lips, didn't they?
Well, if the makers of these commercials and films really wanted to portray cigarette smokers accurately, they may have been better off using more wimpy looking guys.
It turns out that there is yet another reason (add this to the list of the hundreds of others) why smoking is bad for your health, and this one has to do with muscle growth. A study conducted at the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center in Denmark revealed that smoking interferes with protein synthesis in muscle, making growth and repair more difficult.
And how about those male movie stars from the golden age of cinema; they looked like pretty tough with those cigarettes dangling from their lips, didn't they?
Well, if the makers of these commercials and films really wanted to portray cigarette smokers accurately, they may have been better off using more wimpy looking guys.
It turns out that there is yet another reason (add this to the list of the hundreds of others) why smoking is bad for your health, and this one has to do with muscle growth. A study conducted at the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center in Denmark revealed that smoking interferes with protein synthesis in muscle, making growth and repair more difficult.
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