Is it true that … muscle turns into fat if you stop working out?

If you take a break from the gym you may lose muscle and gain fat, but it isn’t as simple as one turning into the other ‘This is not true,” says Prof Leigh Breen, a specialist in muscle physiology at the University of Leicester. But it’s a statement he hears a lot, particularly…

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