5/13/08

Exercise may protect girls from future breast cancer

Ladies, need another reason to exercise? New research has shown that women who start exercising as teens are less likely to get breast cancer in later years:

Women who were physically active as teens and young adults were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than women who grew up sedentary, researchers report Wednesday in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

You can read the whole article here.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

anything on dairy and breast cancer? or tofu and breast cancer? thanks :)

Kevin in Manila said...

I haven't researched that. I'd be extremely skeptical of any connection between these foods and cancer.

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