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How Older Women Can Reduce Breast Cancer Risk – New Study
In general, cancer begins when cells begin to growAs one would expect, a malignant tumor that begins in the breast cells is found in almost every part of the body and breast cancer is out of control. These unwanted cells can spread to other areas of the body. The disease occurs almost exclusively in women, but also in men. The deadly disease can be prevented from occurring in women, and that’s where the study from Alberta Health Services in Canada, published in JAMA Oncology, comes in.
Various ways to prevent the disease have already been suggested – one of these ways is physical activity of at least 150 minutes per week, that is, 21 minutes per day.
However, the Canadian health facility has added to the list. In the study, published in JAMA Oncology, Alberta Health Services followed 400 women for a year and found that older or postmenopausal women who exercised twice as much were remarkably better at reducing fat levels associated with the development of breast cancer later in life .
According to the new findings, no aerobic exercise (exercise that requires oxygenated blood to be pumped through the heart to deliver oxygen to working muscles) that increases heart rate by 65 to 75% was permissible. Most activities monitored and performed from home included elliptical trainers, walking, cycling, and running.
It found that the average reductions in total body fat were one kg or one percent greater in body fat in the 300-minute group compared to the 150-minute group. Subcutaneous abdominal fat, as well as total abdominal fat, BMI, waist circumference, and waist-to-hip ratio also decreased more in the 300-minute group.
Some of the effects were found to be greater in obese women with a BMI greater than 30 for weight change, BMI, waist and hip circumference, and subcutaneous abdominal fat, according to the results.
Although older women are reaching the age where it’s tempting to slow down your exercise rate a bit, they need to exercise more than others to stay healthy.
Scientists suggest that women over age 50 should exercise five hours a week – twice the government mandate – to help prevent breast cancer.
Most cases of breast cancer occur in women who have reached menopause, this is because after menopause, fat cells have been found to be a particularly good food source for the hormones that feed the cancer cells. So if you’re burning fat to starve cancer cells, more exercise is required to reduce a woman’s chance of contracting the disease.
Therefore, older women who exercise 45 minutes a day – 300 minutes a week – burn more fat and reduce their risk of breast cancer.
Highlighting the need to consider the elderly, given the results of this study, researcher Dr. Christine Friedenreich states that a link between physical activity and the risk of breast cancer after menopause is likely and that this has been supported by more than 100 studies.
He added that their results of a dose-response exercise effect on total fat mass and various other measures of obesity, including abdominal fat, particularly in obese women, provide a basis for encouraging postmenopausal women to exercise at least 300 minutes per week, which is longer than the minimum recommended for cancer prevention.
Another researcher, Dr. Kerri Winters-Stone, of Oregon Health and Science University, Portland, also said continued research has shown that the biological basis of the relationship between exercise and disease is indicative of the need to prescribe exercise as preventative medicine.
Along with these efforts must come the need to become and remain physically active and fit.
Older women should now avoid the risk of cancer by working beyond the general recommendation.
Another study has in addition to staying physically fit older women to stay away from postmenopausal hormones as they have a mixed effect on health and increase the risk of some diseases. According to the study, only estrogen hormones and estrogen plus progestogen hormones increase the risk of breast cancer in women.
So if you need to take hormones after menopause, it should be as brief as possible.
