In 2016, researchers from the U.S. Cancer Center published a research paper, analyzing the data of up to 1.44 million Europeans and Americans, and found that exercise can significantly reduce the incidence of 13 cancers.
Although there have been many articles on sports and cancer incidence before, this is by far the largest and most comprehensive one.
Then the question arises, what kind of exercise can prevent cancer? How much risk can exercise reduce?
What Exercise Can Prevent Cancer
The paper studies [leisure time exercise], including walking, running, swimming, fitness, etc., which is what we call [exercise].
[Sports] related to the nature of work at ordinary times, such as a large number of physical activities of heavy manual workers and professional athletes, are not included.
The conclusion is that in order to prevent cancer, the amount of exercise is very important, what’s exercise style is not so important, and there is no need for strenuous exercise.
Running, playing ball games, Taijiquan, square dancing… Just choose a favorite sport that suits you.
The long jump is fine.
What Exercise Can Prevent Cancer
The text studied 26 cancers and found that exercise significantly reduced the incidence of 13 of them, respectively (the reduction rate in parentheses):
- Esophageal adenocarcinoma (42%), liver cancer (27%), lung cancer (26%), renal cancer (23%), gastric cardiac cancer (22%), endometrial cancer (21%), myeloid leukemia (20%), myeloma (17%), colon cancer (16%), head and neck cancer (15%), rectal cancer (13%), bladder cancer (13%) and breast cancer (10%)
You see, 8 of China’s top 10 cancers can reduce risks through exercise, and the benefits can be seen!
Is exercise effective for smokers?
It works, and it works!
Studies have found that whether smoking or not, exercise can significantly prevent a variety of cancers.
An interesting figure is that if you smoke or have smoked, exercise can reduce the incidence of lung cancer by at least 30%!
In a word, whether you are smoking or have smoked before, move quickly.
Are there any other factors that affect the exercise effect?
In order to see if there are any other factors that can affect the anti-cancer effect of exercise, the researchers subdivided the population according to geographical location, gender, race, whether hormone therapy is carried out, and the length of data tracking time. The results showed that none of them had any effect on the results.
Therefore, no matter where you are, male or female, yellow or white or black, eating Lamian Noodles or hot pot, there is no excuse to move quickly.
However, all research papers have limitations, and this one is no exception. The biggest problem is that any such epidemiological statistics can only prove [correlation], not [cause and effect].
However, in addition to this article, there are a large number of papers that prove that exercise can reduce the incidence of cancer from other angles, and exercise can reduce obesity, which is a clear carcinogenic factor. Combined with this information, there is reason to believe that exercise can reduce the incidence of cancer.
It happens that the weather is warm, so let’s go to exercise together with our friends and family ~