Vigourous activity protects against breast cancer
Friday, October 31, 2008 - 13:07
in Health & Medicine
Normal-weight women who carry out lots of vigourous exercise are approximately 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who don't exercise vigourously. A study of more than thirty thousand postmenopausal American women, reported in BioMed Central's open access journal Breast Cancer Research, has revealed that a sedentary lifestyle can be a risk factor for the disease - even in women who are not overweight...
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