2010-Vol 2 - Fitness one

PUTTING ON wEIGHT OVER TIME cAN ALSO
INcREASE THE RISk OF BREAST cANcER –
STUDIES HAVE FOUND THAT
• Putting on 2-10kgs of weight after the menopause increases
the risk of breast cancer by 30%.
• Putting on 25kgs of weight after the age of 18 increases the
risk of breast cancer by 45%.
Overweight and obese women didn’t respond as well
to treatment compared to normal weight women. Normal weight
women were 77% more likely to benefit from chemotherapy and
anti hormonal therapy.
DOES LOOSING wEIGHT LOwERS THE
RISk OF cANcER
One recent study that examined the effect of intentional
weight loss of 20 or more pounds and were not currently overweight
had cancer rates at level of healthy women who never over
weighed.
National cancer institute(NCI) has ongoing programmes
to move obesity related research in to practice. For example, NCI’s
division of cancer control and population sciences is supporting
the integration of diet and physical activity science into comprehensive
cancer control planning.
One study which appeared in the general cancer epidemiology
found that women who don’t regularly engage in physical
activity have more than twice the risk than active women in developing
breast cancer. The combination of inactivity and poor diet
packed on even more deadly punch resulting in almost 5 times the
risk.
A study done at university of Minnesota similarly showed
that periodic caloric restriction rather than a constant low calorie
diet may provide greater protection against breast cancer.
cONcLUSION:
“Physical exercise and weight reduction in postmenopausal
women decreases the risk of developing breast cancer, and
increases the response to treatment(in case if cancer occurs) ”.
“Regular exercise and maintenance of average body
weight in young and premenopausal women decreases the risk of
developing breast cancer on a later date”.
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