Many people know the benefits that exercise can have on one’s overall general health, but there are fewer people that are knowledgeable about the role it plays in lowering the risk for many different cancers. Since other risk factors that contribute to cancer include an unhealthy amount of fat and an unhealthy weight, which also contribute to various other chronic diseases, one could weigh the idea that through exercising they are potentially killing three birds with one stone in regards to lowering their risks of contracting these chronic diseases or illnesses. Of course in order to receive the benefits available through the act of exercise, one cannot just exercise for any amount of time. According to Cordeiro, the one’s goal for weekly physical
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The whole goal of exercise is to increase the heart and breathing rate of an individual, meaning that for MI one should not be able to sing, but they may be able to talk albeit in only short sentences. On the other hand, if one has a breathing rate that is very rapid and they are unable to speak more than a few words at once, then the activity they are performing would be considered at a VI level. For instance, one could walk a mile in seventeen minutes and that would be considered brisk walking, a MI exercise, or one could walk a twelve minute mile, known as fast walking, which is a VI exercise. While the afore mentioned activities themselves a good way to lower the risk of cancer, one would benefit even more if they also included strengthening activities of the muscles at least two days of the week in their exercise regime. One should keep in mind that it is best to allow for a two day recovery period between each round of training, so in the meantime one could incorporate their other physical …show more content…
They discovered that regular exercise does indeed have an effect of some sort a number of different cancers including pancreatic, intestinal, prostate, lung, colon, skin, mammary, endometrial, and breast. Another discovery made was that physical activity can have different effects on carcinogens, a contribution to cancer, and those effects are dependent upon the strength, length, and frequency of exercise as well as the age and energy supply of the
The whole goal of exercise is to increase the heart and breathing rate of an individual, meaning that for MI one should not be able to sing, but they may be able to talk albeit in only short sentences. On the other hand, if one has a breathing rate that is very rapid and they are unable to speak more than a few words at once, then the activity they are performing would be considered at a VI level. For instance, one could walk a mile in seventeen minutes and that would be considered brisk walking, a MI exercise, or one could walk a twelve minute mile, known as fast walking, which is a VI exercise. While the afore mentioned activities themselves a good way to lower the risk of cancer, one would benefit even more if they also included strengthening activities of the muscles at least two days of the week in their exercise regime. One should keep in mind that it is best to allow for a two day recovery period between each round of training, so in the meantime one could incorporate their other physical …show more content…
They discovered that regular exercise does indeed have an effect of some sort a number of different cancers including pancreatic, intestinal, prostate, lung, colon, skin, mammary, endometrial, and breast. Another discovery made was that physical activity can have different effects on carcinogens, a contribution to cancer, and those effects are dependent upon the strength, length, and frequency of exercise as well as the age and energy supply of the