How Walking May Lower Breast Cancer Risk
by Gretchen Reynolds, NY Times offered by Ed Raiola
Physical activity, even including walking, can substantially reduce a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer, encouraging new science shows, in part, it seems, by changing how her body deals with estrogen.
Evidence has been accumulating for some time that exercise reduces the risk of many types of cancer, including breast malignancies. But the physiological mechanisms involved have not been well characterized, nor have scientists known what kinds and amounts of exercise provide the surest protection. Continue reading
women health, women breast cancer, exercise
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