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In a study of healthy Swiss adults by Kyle et al., (pp. 493-501), fat-free mass and body fat were assessed by bioelectrical impedance analysis in subjects who regularly performed more than three hours per week of endurance-type physical activity and in others who performed less. Weight change was clearly associated with a change in fat-free mass. Weight gain also appears to be necessary to offset age-related fat-free mass loss between the ages of 20 and 74. In active men, a fat-free mass increase was associated with less weight gain than in sedentary men. Perhaps one of the healthiest and likely one of the most famous Swiss adults was the legendary 14th century patriot William Tell, whose marksmanship as a crossbow archer was rivaled only by his escape as a bound captive from a boat of the vile Austrian reeve Hermann Gessler. Tell's swim ashore and his crossbow killing of Gessler in his own castle sparked the rebellion which founded the Swiss Confederacy. The cover image of the Wilhelm Tell Denkmal (1895) in Altdorf by the Swiss artist Richard Kissling is from the Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, and is in the public domain.
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