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Weightlifting could take eight years off your body

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Lifting weights in the gym three times a week may give you the body of a person eight years younger, a study suggests.

Weightlifting has been linked to better bone and muscle health before, but the new study of 4800 people found lifters also had a lower biological age.

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The Telegraph London

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