Run for Your Life: Exercise Protects Against Cancer
Thursday, April 7, 2016 - 11:00
in Health & Medicine
When you're pounding along an icy pavement or sweating through a gym workout, you try to remind yourself of the many health benefits of exercise. Between gasps, you can say that a healthy, fit lifestyle helps prevents obesity, a worldwide problem of increasing magnitude that has been linked to cardiovascular disease and diabetes. But here's one more--exercise may decrease cancer incidence and slow the growth rate of tumors.