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Physical Activity Against Breast Cancer
One strength of housework a day, could hold off the doctor, and a daily dose of housework can reduce their risk of breast cancer, according to research has shown.
Women who stay fit and perform physical activity after menopause have a 17 percent less likely to develop the disease than those who rarely leave the couch.
But not just any type of exercise is enough, scientists prescribe an activity of “moderate to strong”, such as heavy housework, gardening and hiking.
Previous studies have found the importance of physical activity as a protection against breast cancer, but this was one of the first to observe the different types of exercise at different stages of life.
Researchers asked more than 110. 000 postmenopausal women to assess their activity levels at different ages.
Over the next six and a half, women in the group had made more than seven hours a week of moderate to vigorous exercise were less likely to develop breast cancer than inactive women.
Light exercise does not help, as reported by the journal BMC Cancer, and Dr. Tricia Peters of the National Cancer Institute in Bethesda, Md., said that exercise can affect hormones so they help prevent cancer breast.
The findings may help inform the mechanisms that are initiated by physical activity, on breast cancer.