Cancer Treatment - Physical activity is a wonder drug

[malaise]

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/29/walking-mile-day-cut-risk-dying-breast-prostate-cancer-40pc
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People with two of the most common forms of cancer can cut their risk of dying from the disease by as much as 40% simply by walking for a mile a day, Macmillan Cancer Support has claimed.

Those with breast cancer or prostate cancer can reduce their chances of dying if they walk for about 20 minutes a day, the charity says.

Breast cancer sufferers can also lower their risk of the disease recurring if they follow the same regime, as long as the exercise is of moderate intensity – vigorous enough to leave them slightly out of breath.

Bowel cancer patients need to undertake more physical activity to potentially receive similar benefits, however. Doing about six hours a week of moderate intensity exercise can reduce their risk of dying from the disease by up to 50%, according to analysis by Macmillan and the Ramblers, the walking group.

That equates to walking about 18 miles a week in total.

"For cancer patients, physical activity can not only reduce the risk of dying or the cancer coming back, but it can also help to manage some of the devastating side-effects of treatment, such as swelling, fatigue or anxiety," said Ciaran Devane, Macmillan's chief executive.

[Liberal_in_LA]

1. k&r

[still_one]

2. For any chronic condition exercise has positive effects, not only does it help with your mental

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outlook, but there is a strong evidence it will have a self-healing effect

[malaise]

3. There is nothing like helping your blood to circulate

and moving your limbs.

Walking is wonderful.

[still_one]

7. Absolutely

[BrotherIvan]

10. +1

Our bodies were made to move.

[spinbaby]

4. Cause and effect

Cause and effect are not always what they seem. People who are more active have a lower death rate but this may simply be because people who feel better are more active.

[adirondacker]

5. in a related article that was posted in an office I worked at...Your Office Chair Is Killing You

"If you're reading this article sitting down—the position we all hold more than any other, for an average of 8.9 hours a day—stop and take stock of how your body feels. Is there an ache in your lower back? A light numbness in your rear and lower thigh? Are you feeling a little down?

These symptoms are all normal, and they're not good. They may well be caused by doing precisely what you're doing—sitting. New research in the diverse fields of epidemiology, molecular biology, biomechanics, and physiology is converging toward a startling conclusion: Sitting is a public-health risk. And exercising doesn't offset it. "People need to understand that the qualitative mechanisms of sitting are completely different from walking or exercising," says University of Missouri microbiologist Marc Hamilton. "Sitting too much is not the same as exercising too little. They do completely different things to the body."

In a 2005 article in Science magazine, James A. Levine, an obesity specialist at the Mayo Clinic, pinpointed why, despite similar diets, some people are fat and others aren't. "We found that people with obesity have a natural predisposition to be attracted to the chair, and that's true even after obese people lose weight," he says. "What fascinates me is that humans evolved over 1.5 million years entirely on the ability to walk and move. And literally 150 years ago, 90% of human endeavor was still agricultural. In a tiny speck of time we've become chair-sentenced," Levine says."

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http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/10_19/b4177071221162.htm

[malaise]

14. Well the human body was clealry not designed for sitting down

I read that article back then.

[gyroscope]

6. Hmm

so why isn't this important information being widely reported in the US?

[panader0]

8. As a construction worker for 40+ years (bricklayer),

I can say that the work is good for you. At 64 I am in good shape, better than my friends whose jobs are sit down.
I'm starting to slow down a bit, less work available. At this point it's a game figuring out what I'll die from. I worked hard and played hard.

[malaise]

13. No doubt you're in better shape that those sitting down all day

Make sure you continue to exercise - we're all going to die but better not from some painful crap disease. :hi"

[redruddyred]

9. ie pharmaceuticals are a scam

read between the lines.

[Skittles]

11. don't wait until you are ill to exercise

[malaise]

12. Good point

Thankfully our parents taught us this by example.

[Not a Fan]

15. Physical therapy for cancer - or is it really Vitamin D3?

Physical activity is always beneficial on its own of course, but the obvious is being overlooked here.

If you are outside at the right time of day, your exposed skin will make VD3.

Vitamin D3 deficiency has been linked to cancer for many years. A study published in the Anti-Cancer Journal a few years ago showed that 87% of all cancers are PREVENTED by taking a minimum of 8,000 IU VD3 a day.

http://www.grassrootshealth.net/garland02-11

Studies have also shown that cancer patients with higher blood serum levels consistently have better outcomes. (This is also true of patients in ICU units, patients with AIDS, victims of heart attacks, and more)

In fact there have been two mega-analysis studies of VD3 that show that it decreases All-Cause mortality. Here is discussion of one from the Smithsonian:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/five-vitamins-and-supplements-are-actually-worth-taking-180949735/?no-ist

Vitamin D3 has even been used to cure cancer. Here is one account.

There is a great amount of reliable information on this available on-line if you look into it.

And as a bonus I'm posting the link to the study that verifies what the evidence has indicated for several years now - VD3 deficiency significantly increases your susceptibility to not just Alzheimer's, but to dementia generally.

Published August 6, 2014, the Conclusion reads:

"Conclusion:
Our results confirm that vitamin D deficiency is associated with a substantially increased risk of all-cause dementia and Alzheimer disease. This adds to the ongoing debate
about the role of vitamin D in nonskeletal conditions.
Neurology
®2014;83:1–9"

http://www.grassrootshealth.net/media/download/llewellyn-neurology-alzheimers-080614.pdf