Movement reduces the risk of tumor

Movement reduces the risk of tumor!

Movement & an active lifestyle helps reduce the risk of over 10 types of tumor!

Unfortunately the number of lazy people & those leading a sedentary lifestyle is on the increase, though research keeps on confirming how important & how good physical activity does to our organism & how it help reduce the risk of contracting 10 different types of cancer.  A Study recently published on the JAMA Internal medicine journal, showed & confirmed once again the benefits an active lifestyle gives & how important physical activity is, that they have equalled it to medicine.

And yet all over the world the number of people caught in laziness & bad eating habits, sometimes leading also to death is on a continuous increase.

Very impressive numbers have been registered declaring that half of the American population & 4 out of 10 Italians are motionless.  If we look at the Americans as obese & lazy people living between tv & donuts, the Italians are unfortunately not that far:
23 million Italians, meaning 40% of the population, don’t practice any type of sport, A report from the Ministry of health in 2009 stated how laziness kills, due to various diseases caused by inactivity & a passive life kill about 28 thousand people each year.  And if this is not enough to get us thinking, a German study came to the conclusion that those who spend many hours seated (in front of a tv or pc, be it for work or pleasure) have a much higher risk of suffering from cancer than others.

Many different scientific researches have proven many times that those who practice any type of movement regularly & constantly have a much lower risk of encountering cardiovascular diseases, the news is that the latest researches don’t only highlight the less risk of cardiovascular disease but after analysing the data of about 1 million people between 1987 & 2014, of which approximately 187 thousand people suffering from tumor, came to the conclusion that practicing sports reduces the risk of more than 10 types of tumor such as: esophagus (risk reduced by 42%), liver (27%), lung (26%), kidney (23%), stomach (22%), endometrium (21%), myeloid leukemia (20%), myeloma (17%), colon (16%), head & neck (15%), rectum & bladder (13%), breast (10%) independantly from weight & smoking.

From the research’s results it appears evident that those who practice any type of sports in a regular & constant manner reduce further the risk of getting cancer.  It has been years by now that doctors, scientists & professors keep insisting on the necessity of practicing sports on a daily basis & in a gradual way adapting it to our physical conditions but always on a DAILY basis, starting from simple walking ideal for everybody to competitions for the more enthusiast.  American experts from the American college of sports & medicine in 2014 have given real actual guidelines, saying that in order to REMAIN HEALTHY, adults must undertake physical activity for at least 150 minutes per week that is 30 minutes a day for 5 days a week, whether its moderate or energetic does not count, MOVEMENT is important.  If we need to lose weight than the minutes per week and become 300 per week.

With regards to children at least 60 minutes per day are NECESSARY, to be split between aerobic activity (therefore with vigorous effort, at least 3 times a week) & sports that help strengthen bones & muscles.

Teaching children from a young age to practice sports on a daily basis helps them become aware & fit adults!

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