As some of you may recall, I walked in the Susan G Komen 3-Day for the Cure last year and the fight against breast cancer has kind of become my personal social cause to work with.
This article talks about how we're basically at a decent spot for early detection in order to slow the disease.
"What can be achieved with screening has been achieved. We can't do much more," Carlo La Vecchia, head of epidemiology at the University of Milan, told The Associated Press. "It's time to move onto other things."
Just some background stats on the prevalence of breast cancer in western society.
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women. In Europe, there were about 421,000 new cases and nearly 90,000 deaths in 2008, the latest available figures. The United States last year saw more than 190,000 new cases and 40,000 deaths. A woman's lifetime chance of getting breast cancer is about one in eight.
What's interesting is what they think fuels a lot of breast cancer cases:
Many breast cancers are fueled by estrogen, a hormone produced in fat tissue. So experts suspect that the fatter a woman is, the more estrogen she's likely to produce, which could in turn spark breast cancer. Even in slim women, exercise can help reduce the cancer risk by converting more of the body's fat into muscle.
Now granted, this isn't always true. My cousin that I walked for last year is and always has been a slender woman that exercises, eats healthy and just overall lives a healthy lifestyle. But, since the vast majority of the population is overweight or obese, I think for the most part they are right on target.
La Vecchia cited figures from the International Agency for Research on Cancer, which estimated that 25 to 30 percent of breast cancer cases could be avoided if women were thinner and exercised more.
And there we have it. Another reason why we need to exercise more and eat healthier.
There's just simple things that you can do to lose weight by eating healthier and exercising that are simple and at the same time, is one of the ways to prevent breast cancer:
1. Stick with whole foods such as meat, vegetables, fruits, nuts, and oils.
2. Stay away from processed food (if you can't pronounce the ingredient that is listed on the box, then put it down).
3. Simple (yet intense) exercises that involve the biggest muscles in your body in order to not only burn more calories during the workout, but also after the workout.
The Home Workout Routines that I offer (that'll cost you less than $10 for a 4-week program) is a great exercise program to get you started AND it comes with a Fat Loss Nutritional Guide. Best part is that you can do the workouts right in your own home and you don't need ANY exercise equipment.
If you're trying to find ways to prevent breast cancer, this simple program is a great way to get your exercise in and get your eating in line to help reduce that risk.
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