Close X
Tuesday, November 5, 2024
ADVT 
Health

Exercise scores over diet in lowering breast cancer risk

Darpan News Desk IANS, 03 Jun, 2014 10:24 AM
    Are you on a strict diet to reduce body fat that may also help lower breast cancer risk? Better take up exercise as researchers have found that physical activity offers additional benefit, beyond the effect of weight loss in reducing cancer risk.
     
    Both exercising and eating better are thought to reduce women's risk of breast cancer by decreasing body fat and levels of the sex hormones related to breast cancer.
     
    "Exercise has a stronger effect on breast cancers fuelled by hormones, compared to dieting, and also offers additional benefits such as preserving lean body mass," said Anne Maria May from University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands.
     
    “Exercise is the preferred weight loss strategy to decrease breast cancer risk,” May added. 
     
    The study involved about 240 overweight women, aged 50 to 69, and they were set a goal to lose five to six kgs over 16 weeks.
     
    By the end of the study, women in both the exercising and dieting groups achieved their weight-loss goals, but the exercising participants preserved their lean body mass (which includes muscles and bones), and reduced more of their body fat, compared with the dieting participants. 
     
    Those who exercised also reduced their levels of estrogen (a potential risk factor for breast cancer) more than dieting participants did and the exercising women showed decreases in all types of estrogen in the body, whereas women in the diet group showed a decrease in only one type of estrogen.

    MORE Health ARTICLES

    e-cigarettes next big smoking poison, warns study

    e-cigarettes next big smoking poison, warns study
    The fast spreading e-cigarettes are undoing the anti-smoking efforts of the last three decades, health experts warn. Also, the number of people being poisoned by e-cigarettes in the US has gone up manifold in the last few years, according to official reports.

    e-cigarettes next big smoking poison, warns study

    Tiny robot that performs surgery via belly button!

    Tiny robot that performs surgery via belly button!
    Imagine a tiny robot that can enter your body via small belly button precision, perform surgery and return to its base peacefully.

    Tiny robot that performs surgery via belly button!

    An app to test your eyes anywhere on earth

    An app to test your eyes anywhere on earth
    In a ground-breaking innovation that could help prevent blindness in millions across the world, scientists have developed an app that allows eye tests anywhere.

    An app to test your eyes anywhere on earth

    High temperature reduces length of pregnancy: Study

    High temperature reduces length of pregnancy: Study
    If you are pregnant and wish a full-term delivery, it is better to shift to a colder place before the mercury goes up as high temperature may reduce the length of your pregnancy, research indicates.

    High temperature reduces length of pregnancy: Study

    Astronauts' space odyssey alters their hearts for 'bad'

    Astronauts' space odyssey alters their hearts for 'bad'
    In an alarming revelation, a new study finds that astronauts' hearts become more spherical when exposed to long periods of microgravity in space -- a change that could lead to cardiac problems when they are back on earth.

    Astronauts' space odyssey alters their hearts for 'bad'

    Autism, an individual disorder

    Autism, an individual disorder
    The International Centre for Neurological Restoration (CIREN) here is developing a project aimed at validating and measuring the effectiveness of interventions in patients with autism spectrum disorders (ASD).

    Autism, an individual disorder