Sentence examples for muscle shrinking from inspiring English sources

In Robert Zemeckis's "Cast Away," Tom Hanks plays a Federal Express executive in a plane that crash-lands on a desert island where, over four grueling years, he turns his baby fat into lean muscle, shrinking before our eyes.

Finally, while the one-flip rib-eyes all seemed to curl during cooking (a result of the outer muscle shrinking before the inner muscle), the frequent flipper came off the grill nice and flat.

Bones weaken, eyes lose focus, muscles shrink.

Her muscles shrank, she lost two inches in height and became riddled with arthritis.

In the near-absence of gravity, bone mass decreases in the load-bearing regions of the skeleton, and muscles shrink when not used.

There's a risk of kidney stones as calcium leaches from bones, heart muscles shrink and, with blood glucose control confused by lack of exercise, diabetes may set in. Britain has decided not to be involved in the manned aspects of Aurora but is contributing to the robotic exploration stages.

Conversely, muscles shrink (atrophy) when protein degradation dominates.

Muscles shrank in both groups, but the normal mice showed few signs of permanent atrophy.

A new study shows that a protein known as Runx1 springs into action to preserve your basic muscle structure even as your muscles shrink from lack of use.

Stedman proposes that because of this genetic change, the primates' massive jaw muscles shrank, making possible a threefold expansion of the brain.

Last year a University of Calgary trial found that people on overnight dialysis (with traditional machines) needed fewer hypertension drugs and their thickened heart muscles shrank, according to the results in the Journal of the American Medical Association.