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Volume 1, Issue 3
Exercise Helps Breast Cancer Survivors
Active Kids Build Strong Bones for Life
Walking for a Healthy Colony
Regular Exercise and Diet Reduces Abdominal Fat
Men's Health Helped By Regular Exercise
Exercise Helps Breast Cancer Survivors
October is Breast Cancer Awareness month-a time to not only encourage women to get their annual mammogram, but also to honor those women who have survived the disease.
A new study from the M.D. Anderson Cancer Center has uncovered vital research that can help women in the months following breast cancer treatment.
The six-month study found that women who exercised for 30 minutes a day, five days a week after their cancer treatment reported feeling healthier, decreased pain, and increased ability to engage in their daily activities.1
Active Kids Build Strong Bones for Life
Some day your kids will thank you for making them turn off the TV and it just might be decades later when they have avoided broken bones and osteoporosis.
A study in Sweden recently uncovered important information about the bone building benefits of exercise during childhood and adolescence. Kids involved in sports who actively train for nine hours a week can reduce their risk of fracture later in life by up to 50%.2
Walking for a Healthy Colon
Regular exercise can help prevent against colon cancer recurrence, according to new research from the Dana Farber Cancer Institute.
During this one-year study researchers tracked nearly 850 individuals in order to examine how exercise affected their overall health. Those who walked 6 hours a week-the equivalent of 2-3 miles per day-were nearly 50% more likely to be alive and cancer free than those who were physically inactive.3
Regular Exercise and Diet Reduces Abdominal Fat
Calorie restriction isn't enough for women to reduce abdominal fat cells. Exercise is essential to decreasing fat cells as well as the risk for diabetes and cardiovascular disease, according to new results from a five-year study of obese women.
Women in the study were divided into three groups: diet, diet plus low intensity exercise and diet plus high intensity exercise. While women in all three groups were able to reduce their overall weight and BMI, only the women in the two exercise groups reduced their abdominal fats cells, thereby lowering their risk for other chronic diseases.4
Men's Health Helped By Regular Exercise
New research out of the Harvard School of Public Health indicates that many of the same things that are good for a man's heart are also good for his sex life.
Researchers followed 22,000 men aged 40 to 75 for 14 years, studying their lifestyle habits. Men who engaged in regular physical activity not only lowered their risk for cardiovascular disease and other chronic illnesses, but were also 30% less likely to develop erectile dysfunction then men who were inactive.5
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1 Basen-Engquist K, Taylor CL, Rosenblum C, Smith MA, Shinn EH, Greisinger A, Gregg X, Massey P, Valero V, Rivera E. (2006). Randomized pilot test of a lifestyle physical activity intervention for breast cancer survivors. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 24, 3535-3541
2 Nordstrom A, Olsson T, Nordstrom P. (2006). Sustained benefits from previous physical activity on bone mineral density in males. The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism, 91, 2600-2604.
3 Meyerhardt JA, Heseltine D, Niedzwiecki D, Hollis D, Saltz LB, Mayer RJ, Thomas J, Nelson H, Whittom R, Hantel A, Schilsky RL, Fuchs CS. (2006). Impact of Physical Activity on Cancer Recurrence and Survival in Patients With Stage III Colon Cancer: Findings From CALGB 89803. Journal of Clinical Oncology, 24, 3535-3541.
4 You T, Murphy KM, Lyles MF, Demons JL, Lenchik L, Nicklas BJ. (2006). Addition of aerobic exercise to dietary weight loss preferentially reduces abdominal adipocyte size. International Journal of Obesity, 30, 1211-6
5 Bacon CG, Mittleman MA, Kawachi I, Giovannucci E, Glasser DB, Rimm EB. (2006). A Prospective Study of Risk Factors for Erectile Dysfunction. The Journal of Urology, 176, 217-221 |
