Exercise and Cancer.
Research does indicate that regular exercise helps you in many positive ways. In cancer prevention, exercise plays an important role. What we mean by exercise or physical activity, is movement of body muscles which requires energy. Regular exercise for about 30 minutes a day – if not everyday, at least 5 days a week – will go a long way to prevent cancer. Exercise does help to prevent cancer.
Physical Activity and Cancer.
Exercise could be in any form which you enjoy, so that you continue doing it. It could be walking, cycling, aerobics, swimming or any such physical activity which makes you spend energy. It could be moderate or strenuous. The important thing is that, it has to regular.
How Exercise Helps in Cancer Prevention.
There are a few theories being propounded as to how exercise helps prevent cancer.
1) Exercise strengthens your immune system, which in turn boosts your immunity to prevent and fight diseases including cancer.
2) Exercise increases the intestinal movements, which helps in prompt evacuation of the bowels. This prevents any carcinogens in food and the intestines from staying in the intestines for a long period and forming cancer. This helps to prevent colon cancer.
3) Exercise helps you to maintain an ideal weight and prevents you from being overweight or obese. The obesity and cancer link is explained in obesity and cancer.
4) Exercise has a positive effect against any inflammation in the body, which helps to ward off cancer. And chronic inflammation in the body is a contributory factor to cancer. This is explained in obesity and cancer.
5) Exercise helps in proper metabolism of insulin and hormones. This prevents hormone levels from being high, which helps to ward off cancers which are hormone dependent, eg breast cancer, endometrial cancer, prostate cancer.
6) Exercise has a positive overall impact on the body energy balance, lung capacity and the antioxidant activity, which greatly keeps you immunized against cancer.
7) Exercise keeps cell and DNA repair at an optimum level, which reduces your cancer risks. Do read cancer, to know the role of DNA in cancer.
Action Step:
Just 20 to 30 minutes ( out of the 1440 mins in a day) of exercise can help in keeping you against so many diseases including cancer. The benefits of exercises are just too many to ignore.
Your action step.
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