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3 steps to cut cancer risk dramatically [slideshow]
2. Increase your physical activity
All you need is 30 minutes for five days out of the week, of moderate intensity exercise such as walking, gentle cycling, yoga, swimming or body weight training.
If you’d like to cut that time by half, you can upscale your workouts to vigorous intensity activities such as running, sprinting, weight training or high intensity interval training. Then you only need to do 15 minutes for five days out of the week.
Exercise cuts your cancer risk two ways: According to Marcas Bamman, Ph.D., director of the University of Alabama in Birmingham Center for Exercise Medicine, “Exercise as a means of preventing or reducing the risk of various cancers, particularly breast cancer, is important for two reasons: both the direct physical effects and the indirect effect, which is preventing or contributing to mechanisms that help prevent weight gain.”
Try to limit sedentary behaviors — sitting, lying down, watching TV — and opt for leisurely activities such as gardening, nature walking, or standing while you work at a computer.
