Cancer-Fighting Benefits of Exercise
WASHINGTON - According to experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), regular physical exercise prompts a series of changes within the human body that actively fight cancer. By studying these changes, researchers have begun to isolate how and why physical activity seems to lower cancer risk. "For almost fifty years we've known that regular exercise protects against heart disease," said Edward Giovannucci, M.D., Sc.D., of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. "The studies coming in now point to a similar protective effect against cancer, especially colon cancer. Laboratory studies and clinical trials are helping us understand the physiological changes that occur in the body of a person who exercised regularly.
A 1997 AICR report, Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, reviewed the effect of exercise upon cancers occurring at specific body sites. Additional studies are currently underway into the possible link between exercise and lowered risk of colon, breast, prostate and other cancers.
Source: Natural Products Industry, Insider®, Volume 5, No. 2, February 7, 2000
WASHINGTON - According to experts at the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), regular physical exercise prompts a series of changes within the human body that actively fight cancer. By studying these changes, researchers have begun to isolate how and why physical activity seems to lower cancer risk. "For almost fifty years we've known that regular exercise protects against heart disease," said Edward Giovannucci, M.D., Sc.D., of the Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. "The studies coming in now point to a similar protective effect against cancer, especially colon cancer. Laboratory studies and clinical trials are helping us understand the physiological changes that occur in the body of a person who exercised regularly.
A 1997 AICR report, Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Cancer: A Global Perspective, reviewed the effect of exercise upon cancers occurring at specific body sites. Additional studies are currently underway into the possible link between exercise and lowered risk of colon, breast, prostate and other cancers.
Source: Natural Products Industry, Insider®, Volume 5, No. 2, February 7, 2000