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2006-07-20 16:51:53 · 18 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health Diet & Fitness

18 answers

No, fat cannot be converted into muscle. However, when excercising, calories (and fat) are burned and muscle tone is developed. So in a sense, if you excercise, you'll lose fat and gain muscle.

2006-07-20 16:54:46 · answer #1 · answered by Silver 3 · 0 0

Myth number 1 is that fat can be turned into muscle, or vice versa. Muscle is a tissue and fat is a substance. Therefore muscle and fat cannot create one another.

Myth number 2 is that if you weigh more on the scale, you must be overweight. This is untrue. Muscle (lean body mass) weighs approximately 75 percent more than fat. In other words, you can increase your actual body weight without increasing your body fat. You can even increase your body weight and at the same time decrease your percentage of body fat.

Myth number 3 is that the weighing scale is the best way to determine whether you are overweight. In fact, the fit of your clothes and examining yourself nude in the mirror are much better ways of checking that you haven’t developed any unseemly bulges.

2006-07-20 16:59:12 · answer #2 · answered by Diana 6 · 0 0

No not really. The energy derived from burning fat can be used to develop new muscle tissue. In essence comes the term turning fat to muscle.

2006-07-20 16:57:21 · answer #3 · answered by jamorososr 2 · 0 0

No, you don't 'convert' fat to muscle.

You burn off the fat working out and building muscle.

2006-07-20 16:54:39 · answer #4 · answered by edaily777 3 · 0 0

No, but you can loose fat and build muscle at the same time with regular diet and exercise.

2006-07-20 16:56:07 · answer #5 · answered by Tamara 4 · 0 0

Nope. You have to burn the fat and gain the muscle. Weight training is a great way to do that.

2006-07-20 16:55:54 · answer #6 · answered by superflygurl123 3 · 0 0

No. Fat is used for fuel, energy. Muscle has to be "built up", It lies beneath the fat.

2006-07-20 16:56:30 · answer #7 · answered by pjc4everyours 1 · 0 0

Not literally. But you can burn fat and build muscle by exercising properly.

2006-07-20 16:55:05 · answer #8 · answered by Blunt Honesty 7 · 0 0

No. Fat can only be converted into fuel, or stored.

2006-07-20 16:54:36 · answer #9 · answered by Jane S 2 · 0 0

Yes, and you can convert lead into gold. Two completely different type of cells ..............impossible.

2006-07-20 20:31:06 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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