In the war against breast cancer, and more important, the increasing awareness the prevention is the best measure when it comes to breast cancer, there appears to be a new bit of evidence that may encourage young women to start exercising if they haven’t already, and at the very least, may encourage women to sway their young daughters into begininning exercise routines early in life rather than waiting until their twenties or even later.

The reason is that evidence is pointing to the fact that women are seeming to be more resillient to breast cancer if they report starting to exercise and work out at younger ages.  When I read this, I couldn’t help but smile, because I myself had started working out at a young age, I believe I was 14 when I started doing my aerobics tapes and running, so I consider myself lucky that I became aware of the need for physical fitness early on.  Although admittedly back then I was doing it all for vanity purposes  

The new evidence that younger exercisers may have more resistance to breast cancer is showing that it may be beneficial for girls to start as early on as twelve years old, and to keep this going until they are into their adolescence to keep their risks low, since exercising after menopause is especially also one of the best defenses against breast cancer.

So, how did researchers find this information out, if they weren’t actually tracking a lot of women from age twelve on?  Well, questionnairs of course!  They found that more women who reported starting an exercise regimen earlier in life – ie their teens or even their so called tweens, had a better chance of not getting the dreaded cancer as compared to their counterparts who either started later in life or never started at all.

Again, how many more reasons do we need to get lots of physical activity in our lives?  It seems the evidence speaks for itself – exercise is a great antidote to risky diseases and may increase our longevity and health during our lifespan dramatically. 

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