You Got to Move It, Move It
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Preventative Health
You Got to Move It, Move It
With spring in the air, it’s easier to get outside and get moving. Along with healthy eating, physical activity is integral to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight. Research shows exercise not only aids in losing weight, but it is also crucial for keeping it off. Aside from burning calories, there are numerous other advantages to an active lifestyle, such as boosting metabolism, regulating your appetite, reducing stress, improving your quality of sleep, and decreasing…
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Preventative Health
Exercise and Cancer Survivorship
It is widely known—and repeatedly proven—that exercise goes a long way toward preventing and treating chronic diseases such as obesity, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease. Less frequently studied are the effects of exercise on cancer—from prevention to survivorship—though this is now recently changing. A Correlation between Exercise and Survivorship Among breast cancer survivors, physical activity after diagnosis has consistently been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer recurrence and breast cancer-specific mortality. A recent meta-analysis…