University of Michigan researchers examined the effects of three months of exercise on people with obesity, and found that exercise can favorably modify abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue, the fat tissue just beneath the skin, in ways that can improve metabolic health–even without weight loss. 

They also found, surprisingly, that moderate and high intensity exercise yielded the same positive changes in fat tissue composition and structure, and that fat cells still shrank a bit even without weight loss, said Jeffrey Horowitz,  professor in the School of Kinesiology and principal investigator.

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U-M Kinesiology prof Jeffrey Horowitz on exercise, fat tissue and weight loss

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U-M Kinesiology prof Jeffrey Horowitz on exercise, fat tissue and weight loss

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