For Ageing Well, Strength Exercises Matter More than Protein

Staying strong in later life depends less on how much protein you add and more on whether your muscles are challenged often enough to stay useful.

Last week, I was chatting with a friend in his fifties who’d recently had a DEXA scan.

The report was very much in the modern body-composition mould. It told him to cut his visceral fat, even though it was already well below average and nowhere near a level associated with health risk, and to build more lean mass, despite the fact that he already trains …