Nov 08
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Rigorous Exercise Protects Against Breast Cancer
Exercise, eat right, don’t smoke, don’t drink, and get your antioxidants! These are all things that we hear over and over again when it comes to how, as women, we can help our bodies to avoid the most common of female cancers, and one of the most deadly cancers to women still today, which is breast cancer. We can add vigorous exercise to our anti breast cancer repertoire, according to the latest research.
Is it really an big surprise though, that rigorous and regular exercise can help our bodies to fend off breast cancer? Not really, since we actually know that exercise helps us in so many other ways that we have yet to discover it’s full range of benefits. However, there are suggestions now according the latest research that it’s the really rigorous exercise that may help women fend off this cancer the best that helps most, such as running, doing heavy chores in the house, and swimming, anything where the heart rate is actually getting raised quite a bit and there’s a bit more stress than the body is used to.
It is especially true that lean, thinner women enjoy less rates of breast cancer than women with more body fat, and that exercise, especially the more vigorous type, helps to burn excess body fat off one’s frame, making them more lean and their body fat a lesser percentage of their overall composition. It has long been hypothesized that more body fat means higher levels of harmful and overloaded estrogens, which have been linked to the formation of breast cancer, so it makes sense that trimming that fat off wherever possible may cut risks.
The study was based off of questionnaires that found that the women who reported the most taxing exercise the most frequently also had the lesser rates of breast cancer, to the tune of an over ten percent difference, which is quite statistically significant considering that anything over double digits means something since we are just talking about one lifestyle factor difference between the two groups.Â
