Vigorous Exercise May Reduce Breast Cancer Risk By 30 Percent

Thursday, October 30, 2008 - 23:07 in Health & Medicine

Normal-weight women who carry out lots of vigorous exercise are approximately 30% less likely to develop breast cancer than those who don't exercise vigorously, according to a study of more than thirty thousand postmenopausal American women reported in Breast Cancer Research.  So a sedentary lifestyle can be a risk factor for the disease – even in women who are not overweight. read more

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