This is a story about how TERRIBLE science reporting is.
It starts with my husband sending me this Times article, illustrated with some hunky humans of both sexes, about how HIIT can actually make you gain weight 😱
I clicked on the link and contrary to what you might expect from the headline and image, this was the finding of ONE study - in mice.
Naturally, The Times did not specify the sex of the mice; I was sceptical because sport science has form for studying only men and acting as if this means the results hold for women too.
So I tracked down the original study (no thanks to The Times which never links) and not only is this a mouse study, it’s in MALE mice. Twenty-seven of them.
TWENTY. SEVEN. MALE. MICE.
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