Exercising outdoors 'cuts breast cancer risk'
29/10/2009 Exercising outdoors can help lessen arthritis symptoms, improve memory loss and assist cancer prevention, studies show.
As Breast Cancer Awareness Month draws to a close this week, people are promoting exercising as a key factor in prevention of the deadly disease, reports Thatsfit.com.
A recent review sponsored by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research uncovered that exercise, along with healthy eating and keeping weight under control, could help prevent nearly 40 per cent of breast cancer cases in the US.
The study found that exercise in particular may help reduce breast cancer risk by strengthening the immune system and positively affecting hormones, as well as the benefits of weight loss.
Overweight women put themselves at an increased risk as fatty tissue produces hormones and growth factors like oestrogen and insulin, which may promote cancer development.
The American Cancer Society says that people need to be physically active for at least 30 minutes a day.
Earlier this month, four-time grand slam tennis champion Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario told attendants at a breast cancer event that exercising can reduce the risk of the disease.
As Breast Cancer Awareness Month draws to a close this week, people are promoting exercising as a key factor in prevention of the deadly disease, reports Thatsfit.com.
A recent review sponsored by the World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research uncovered that exercise, along with healthy eating and keeping weight under control, could help prevent nearly 40 per cent of breast cancer cases in the US.
The study found that exercise in particular may help reduce breast cancer risk by strengthening the immune system and positively affecting hormones, as well as the benefits of weight loss.
Overweight women put themselves at an increased risk as fatty tissue produces hormones and growth factors like oestrogen and insulin, which may promote cancer development.
The American Cancer Society says that people need to be physically active for at least 30 minutes a day.
Earlier this month, four-time grand slam tennis champion Arantxa Sanchez-Vicario told attendants at a breast cancer event that exercising can reduce the risk of the disease.
