Friday, June 12th, 2009

cancer-exercise

I will comment on each of the 9 recommendations given by World Cancer Fund foundation which up came with this conclusion by the world experts on the manner.

Rule #1: 30 minutes of exercise everyday

It’s doesn’t look much, but research start to pick up on the subject. A cancer research made at University of Kentucky published in the Prostate journal done on an animal model which is prone to develop prostate cancer after some time, showed that 3 miles run every day for human, decrease the apparition of the disease. Furthermore, Cancer institutes like the Dana-Fraber are also interested in the beneficial effect of physical exercises.

How is it working?

Genes are involved when you exercise. Research demonstrated that physical exercise modifies the gene expression. Exercise reduces some bad combination of gene expression and helps a good combination of genes. So your lifestyle can influence your genes.

Bottom line

Do it. Challenge your friend and family and keep track with a calendar. You can walk, run, bike or swim in group. At first it will be hard for 3 weeks, but a lot less than prostate cancer.

Reference

Physical activity reduces prostate carcinogenesis in a transgenic model. Esser KA, Harpole CE, Prins GS, Diamond AM. Prostate. 2009 Jun 1

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  1. Great article! I have been trying to drink 3 cups of green tea a day and I feel much better! It’s good to see the reasons why.

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