It has long been known that physical activity has a great impact on our health. Now, new research comes to support that by saying that exercising between the ages of 12 and 35 cuts women’s risk of developing breast cancer.
Researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard University in Boston evaluated questionnaires from 64,777 premenopausal women involved in the Nurses Health Study II. The women detailed their physical activity starting from the age 12 to the present.
The study found that the women whose activity equaled 13 walking hours a week or 3.25running hours per week had a 23 percent lower risk of premenopausal breast cancer compared with the less active women. Within six years of enrolling, 550 women were diagnosed with breast cancer before menopause.
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