Exercise Reduces Breat Cancer Risk May 14, 2008
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This is another great reason to start exercising. Breast cancer will affect 1 in 9 women according to statistics. In addition to reducing breast cancer risk, one’s heart will be healthier and the complications of being overweight, such as diabetes, high blood pressure and sleep apnea will be reduced. There is also evidence that Vitamin D3 supplementation can also reduce breast cancer from 50-67%, depending on the blood levels of Vitamin D 25-0H… Combining these two simple strategies could make a huge impact. Best of Luck!
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – The results of a literature review of published studies confirm that while all women are likely to reduce their risk of breast cancer with regular physical activity, certain subgroups benefit more than others.
According to the report posted online by the British Journal of Sports Medicine, postmenopausal women and those with a normal body mass index (BMI) are among the groups that achieve the greatest risk reduction with physical activity. BMI is the ratio of height to weight.
The findings also indicate that certain activities influence the risk reduction more than others. For instance, recreational physical activity cut the risk of breast cancer to a greater extent than did work-related activity.
Dr. C. M. Friedenreich, from the Alberta Cancer Board in Calgary, Canada, and Dr. A. E. Cust, from the University of Melbourne in Australia, examined how the timing, type, and level of physical activity affects the breast cancer risk. Their literature search identified 62 studies.
Forty-seven of the 62 (76 percent) studies indicated there was an anti-breast cancer effect for increased physical activity, with typical risk reductions of 25 percent to 30 percent, the authors report. In 28 of 33 studies, they found evidence of a dose-response effect, which means more exercise correlated with more benefits.
In terms of activities, recreational activity, vigorous activity, and lifetime or later life activity provided the strongest reductions in breast cancer risk.
In addition to postmenopausal women and those with a normal BMI, other subgroups most likely to benefit from physical activity were non-white women, women who half given birth, and those without a family history of breast cancer.
Exercise also had a greater effect in reducing hormone receptor-negative tumors than hormone receptor-positive tumors, the findings indicate.
“Further observational epidemiological research is needed to clarify the biological mechanisms underling the association between physical activity and reduced breast cancer risk,” Friedenreich and Cust conclude, “especially with regard to the type, duration and intensity of activity and to explain differences in population subgroup effects.”
SOURCE: British Journal of Sports Medicine, May 12, 2008. Sports Medicine, May 12, 2008.
Man has gastric surgery to become cop April 7, 2008
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Man has gastric surgery to become cop
To fulfill his dream of becoming a police officer, Tom Dolan gave up a lot. More than 200 pounds, in fact.
Dolan, 35, underwent gastric bypass surgery to get his weight under control. That, along with a healthier diet and exercise, helped transform him from a discontented civilian to a proud member of the Carlisle police force.
“The heaviest I ever got was 443 pounds,” said Dolan. “I had a 66-inch waist and wore a six-extra-large shirt.”
He now weighs about 205 pounds, with a 36-inch waist and an extra-large shirt.
The Windber native said poor eating habits and a sedentary lifestyle made his weight balloon and his dream of joining the force seem unattainable. He worked as an emergency county dispatcher, a private fire investigator and a member of Carlisle’s Union Fire Company.
But his weight continued to rise and his health worsened, and finally in 2003 he sought help from Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center. In November 2003, Dolan underwent gastric bypass surgery, changed his eating habits and began an exercise routine.
“I started going to the gym. I’d run two to three miles, then come home and run another two miles. I started lifting weights,” Dolan said. “It took me two years to get to where I could pass the (police entry) physical.”
He got a position with Ferguson Township police in Centre County and was hired by the Carlisle force in July 2006.
Carlisle Police Chief Stephen Margeson said he was impressed by Dolan’s determination.
“It showed us this guy was very committed to his career goal,” Margeson said. “It showed a tremendous dedication and resolve.”
This week, Dolan is to marry his fiancee, Danielle, a nurse he met through a fire investigation. And he said he has no intention of returning to his former life.
“I love police work. It’s high energy and I’m an adrenaline junkie,” Dolan said. “I had the drive to accomplish this. I still have that drive.”
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Information from: The Patriot-News, http://www.pennlive.com/patriotnews
Breast Cancer Worse In Overweight People Than Skinny People March 15, 2008
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Overweight women have worse breast cancer: study
Breast cancer patients who are overweight have more aggressive disease and are likely to die sooner, U.S. researchers reported on Friday.
A dangerous type of breast cancer, known as inflammatory breast cancer, was seen in 45 percent of obese patients, compared with 30 percent of overweight patients and 15 percent of patients of healthy weight.
“The more obese a patient is, the more aggressive the disease,” said Dr. Massimo Cristofanilli of the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, who led the study.
“We are learning that the fat tissue may increase inflammation that leads to more aggressive disease.”
Writing in the journal Clinical Cancer Research, Cristofanilli and colleagues said they studied 606 women with breast cancer that had spread within the breast.
They classified them according to body mass index or BMI, a globally accepted measure of obesity. People with BMIs of below 25 are considered normal, while 25-29 marks overweight and 30 or above is clinically obese.
After five years, 56.8 percent of obese women and 56.3 percent of overweight women were still alive. But 67.4 percent of the normal weight women had survived.
More than 56 percent of women of normal weight survived 10 years, compared to 42.7 percent of obese women and 41.8 percent of overweight women.
“Obesity goes far beyond just how a person looks or any physical strain from carrying around extra weight. Particular attention should be paid to our overweight patients,” Cristofanilli said.
Many studies have shown that the obese have a greater risk of several types of cancer. Last month British researchers reported in the Lancet medical journal that obesity can double the risk of leukemia, multiple myeloma, thyroid cancer, colon and kidney cancers.
Fat cells produce a range of hormones that could fuel cancer, researchers say.
(Reporting by Maggie Fox, editing by Mohammad Zargham)
Obese People Have Vitamin Deficiency February 18, 2008
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This article reminded me of a recent study I read where it was found that Obese people are frequently vitamin deficient. This is contrary to what we believe. We assume that they are over nourished and therefore obese where the exact opposite it true-
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Vitamin Deficiency May Cause Modern Ills
The Independent – London
02-18-08
chronic shortage of vitamins and other “micronutrients” in the diet may be responsible for triggering many of the ills of modern life such as cancer, obesity and the degenerative diseases of ageing.
Professor Bruce Ames, of the University of California, Berkeley, who invented one of the standard tests for cancer-causing chemicals, said many people’s diets were deficient in one or more of the 40 micronutrients essential for a healthy life.
Taking dietary supplements in the form of vitamin pills could help to counteract many of the disorders associated with ageing, Dr Ames told the American Association meeting.
He said many people on a high-calorie diet in the West or poor diet in developing countries were short of micronutrients and this caused the body to go into an emergency “triage” response in which it tried to keep its metabolism in balance by a process of compensation. This ensures immediate survival, but the consequences are an increase in DNA damage, which causes future cancers, a lowered immune defence, and a decay of the mitochondrial “power plants” of the cells, which causes accelerated ageing,” he said.
He said a shortage of minerals, vitamins and other nutrients could also be partly responsible for obesity.
Diet Soda Makes You Fat! February 16, 2008
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Metabolic Syndrome Is Tied to Diet Soda
But the one-third who ate the most fried food increased their risk by 25 percent compared with the one-third who ate the least, and surprisingly, the risk of developing metabolic syndrome was 34 percent higher among those who drank one can of diet soda a day compared with those who drank none.
“This is interesting,” said Lyn M. Steffen, an associate professor of epidemiology at the University of Minnesota and a co-author of the paper, which was posted online in the journal Circulation on Jan. 22. “Why is it happening? Is it some kind of chemical in the diet soda, or something about the behavior of diet soda drinkers?”… from NY TIMES
