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Here is the new tagline that I just made up for the sport of bodybuilding:

Bodybuilding: It’s Not Just For Looks.

Why? Because more and more studies keep coming out that PROVE that bodybuilding is the best thing you can do to improve your overall life. That’s a big, bold statement, but scientific studies back it up. Bodybuilding gives you health, longevity, a positive mood, energy, self-confidence, and allows you to be healthy and feel great so you can be a better spouse, parent, volunteer, employee, and much more. Without your health, you have nothing.

Two new studies have just come out:

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STUDY 1: Men Who Lift Weights Reduce Their Cancer Risk By 40%!

From the study:

“A team of experts, led by scientists from Sweden’s Karolinska Institute, tracked the lifestyles of 8,677 men aged between 20 and 82 for more than two decades.

Each volunteer had regular medical check ups that included tests of their muscular strength.

Between 1980 and 2003, researchers monitored how many developed cancer and subsequently died from it.

The results showed men who regularly worked out with weights and had the highest muscle strength were between 30 and 40 per cent less likely to lose their life to a deadly tumour.”

Full details:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/5371468/Men-with-big-muscles-cut-cancer-risk-by-40-per-cent.html

BODYBUILDING BENEFIT #183: Reduce your risk of cancer and spend more time alive with your family and friends!

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STUDY 2: Boost Your Mood For 12 Hours With Physical Activity

From the study:

“The study enrolled healthy men and women to complete a survey about their mood states at one-, two-, four-, eight-, 12- and 24-hour intervals following either exercise or rest. Although previous studies have found enhanced mood for up to an hour after exercise, this study found benefits for up to 12 hours following activity, compared to the resting group.”

Full details:

http://www.acsm.org/AM/Template.cfm?Section=Home&CONTENTID=12890&TEMPLATE=/CM/HTMLDisplay.cfm

BODYBUILDING BENEFIT #329: Enhance your mood for 12 hours by working out! Imagine what you can accomplish with a good mood for 12 hours a day, and imagine how your relationships with your family and friend would improve. Are you giving them your BEST right now? Probably not if you aren’t working out.

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If you aren’t bodybuilding, you aren’t living your best life, no matter what your goals are.

Here at Bodybuilding.com, we are helping more and more people around the world to benefit from working out and eating right. It’s our company’s mission! We are making a big difference in every part of our customers’ lives.  I know we can do MORE to help even more people, and we’ll never stop improving our site and service.

Oh, and even though bodybuilding isn’t JUST FOR LOOKS, it’s still a nice side benefit that can get some positive attention:

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