Sunday, January 2, 2011

Effects of endurance running

Using a mobile MRI unit, researchers followed runners for two months along a 4,500-kilometre course to study how their bodies responded to the high-stress conditions of an ultra-long-distance race, according to a study presented at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

"Due to the exceptional setting of this study, we could acquire huge amounts of unique data regarding how endurance running affects the body's muscle and body fat," said Uwe Schütz,

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