Reducing cancer risk by keeping fit and active
Your Fitness Tribe
Researchers recently found that a high level of cardiorespiratory activity was linked to a much lower risk of lung and colon cancer in middle-aged, and older men. Unrelated of age, both men, and females diagnosed with cancer also lowered their risk of dying if they maintained or started to do a high(er) level of fitness.
Past studies have shown that exercise and other healthy lifestyle choices may also curb the risk of colon, breast, uterus, lung and prostate cancer, according to the National Cancer Institute (NCI).
Susan G. Lakoski, MD, of the Vermont Cancer Center at the University of Vermont in Burlington, who led this study had the following to say, in regards to this particular study.
“There is an inverse association between midlife cardiorespiratory fitness [a high CRF capacity] and incident lung and colorectal cancer but not prostate cancer,”
“High mid-life CRF is associated with lower risk of death in those diagnosed as having cancer at Medicare age.”
The researchers in the study covered data from about 14,000 men and the average age at the start of this study were 49. Patient fitness levels were then assessed via a treadmill test between 1971 and 2009.
After an average of 6.5 years, Dr. Lakoski and team had found that 1,310 of the monitored patients had developed prostate cancer, 200 had lung cancer and 181 had colorectal cancer.
Men in the study who had a high level of fitness capacity had a 55 percent lower risk of lung cancer and a 44 percent lower risk of colorectal cancer than men with low levels of fitness.
The cardio-based exercise in this study, however, did not appear to affect prostate cancer risk in either way, but cutting risk with roughly 50% for two out of three cancer types is, of course, a pretty amazing win for a healthy lifestyle.
Among the men who did develop cancer at 65 or older, the risk of cancer-related death was still 32 percent lower for participants in the high-fitness group compared to the low-fitness group.
While not truly new or surprising, it is a brief reminder that there is an endless array of growing scientific reasons why keeping daily fit and active and healthy from exercise to food and simple things such as not sitting still for too long is a huge quality of life (And life span) improver.
Sitting still kills you by the hour
In another study that took place at the Medical College of Wisconsin, scientists tracked levels of activity of 2,031 adults whose average age was 50. This study compared the number of hours each participant spent sitting down each day with the levels of deposits that built up in their blood vessels and act as a signal for heart disease.
Participants spent between two to 12 hours a day sitting in the office and in front of the television. The study then concluded that for every hour spent sitting, the levels of deposit rose by 14 per cent. Which, is a fancy way of saying that every hour spent sedentary in your daily life increases the chance of developing heart issues.
Lead researcher Dr. Jacquelyn Kulkinski, said that adults with sedentary jobs should make sure to take a break every hour where they do something physically challenging, such as a short ten minute walk outdoors or stretching, body weight squats, pushups, pull-ups, yoga or if you have a sparring partner, a short 10 minute MMA workout.
“Reducing the amount of time you sit by even an hour or two a day could (read: Will) have a significant and positive impact on your future cardiovascular health." So, no matter your job or daily life, don't just schedule time at the gym/dance class 3 times per week, take hourly breaks and do something short and sweet that makes you get up and move for a few minutes.
Strength training versus age-related muscular function and strength decline.
And finally, summer 2016 a Norweigan team concluded that lifelong strength training mitigates the age-related decline in efferent drive. A study that clearly highlights that ongoing strength training will provide elderly people beyond age 70+ with a particularly beneficial protection, capable of counteracting the otherwise natural age-related loss of neuromuscular function and strength even when compared to healthy, young and fit people. Link to the study can be found down below.
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The Moment by The Agonist
The Mouse In our Wall
We play in the snow, under the shooting star
Told to you, as I once told, a mind and girly soul, so beautiful.
Inside the walls of our homes, and lives. There are Undraped windows through which we see both in and out, and at night I look out and up with you.
A shooting star stirs and moves the northern lights. Like a spoon through water, it moves before our eyes. Clear as day yet slightly obfuscated through the sheets of glass, the world is silent and it could be a dream as I witness the star cut through the puffy clouds.
And at night.
Some other times, there we are, walking through life's small moments and we are holding hands.
Together, we stand outside having walked amongst the falling leafs and the subtle snow.
Rain or sunshine matters not.
Looking in, through the of night, all chilly frosty glass, the burning lamps the pleasant light and warmth that moves and lives inside.
Is it empty we ask out loud, or is there someone looking out? Back at us. Do they hear our silent minds, can they feel our burning soul and warming hands.
In between these two sides. Neither looking in or out. Or perhaps, they do them both all the time.
There live a gnarly little furry mouse that moves about with his love and all their friends.
At night, you can hear them talk and hug it out. They move, play and dart around, inside and outside the walls that people build. Sometimes they walk our floors, sitting near, our sleeping faces.
We kiss and make a cute little snowy angel. Your arms wisp around and I kiss your pretty lips, yet again.
And right there. In the corner of my eye. I swear the little mice sits right nearby. Looking out at us as we hug it out.
And perhaps he too thinks the very same. Looking out and about, at us and all the shooting stars.

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