Yes.
Recently, researchers at the U.S. Cancer Center published a research paper, saying that they analyzed 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?
Everyone should understand the four details to be discussed next.
Can what Exercise 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 of this article is that if you want to prevent cancer, the amount of exercise is very important, what’s exercise style is not so important, and you don’t need strenuous exercise. Running, playing ball games, Taijiquan, square dancing… Choose a favorite and suitable exercise, and stick to it.
What cancer risks can exercise reduce?
This paper studied 26 kinds of cancers and found that exercise can significantly reduce the incidence rate of 13 kinds of cancers, respectively (the reduction rate is 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.
I think the most interesting data is that if you smoke or have smoked, exercise can reduce the incidence of lung cancer by at least 30%!
However, for non-smokers, exercise can prevent many kinds of cancers, but it has no effect on lung cancer, and the mechanism needs further research.
In a word, whether you are smoking or have smoked, 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.
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, I have reason to believe that exercise can reduce the incidence of cancer.
After watching it, did you also decide to take some exercise?