Breast Cancer
Exercise
What role does exercise play in fighting cancer?
Regular exercise (30 minutes or more on most days of the week) helps
protect against colon cancer and possibly breast and lung cancers.
In addition, exercise helps reduce the cancer risk associated with
obesity by helping you achieve and maintain a healthy body weight.
Below is an easy solution for those of you who are too busy to fit
in a good workout on most days.
Squeezing in what has been coined as "fit bits" of physical activity
(activity for short as a minute or two spread throughout the day)
can keep you healthy and fit. The Cooper Institute for Aerobics
Research in Dallas demonstrated that subjects who performed
lifestyle fitness lost as much weight as a group doing a 20 to 60
minute aerobic session 3 to 5 times per week. They also increased
their aerobic endurance, although not as much as the control group.
So, what does that mean? Got a minute, do something physical. Below
is a list for you to gauge calories burned per activity. The amount
you burn will vary, but this serves as a guide. The calories shown
are based on a 140 pound woman.
* Sweep for 5 minutes = 20 calories
* Push a stroller a half-mile in 10 minutes = 50 calories
* Garden for 15 minutes = 55 calories
* Play ACTIVELY with the children for 15 minutes = 60 calories
* Park in far corner of parking lot at work.
Walk 5 minutes briskly to desk = 25 calories
* Walk briskly back to car, when leaving work, 5 min. = 25 calories
* Four flight of stairs both ways = 40 calories
* Walk briskly to store and then back in 8 minutes = 35 calories
* Here is a quick way to rack up calories burned:
Jump rope for 15 minutes = 150 calories!
Written by Laura S. Garrett, RD, LD, Fitness Trainer, & Owner of www.NutrActive.com - Nutrition & Active Lifestyle Center **Weight Loss, Fitness, and Diabetes Programs** Contact via e-mail: Laura.RD@NutrActive.com ( mailto:laura.rd@nutractive.com ) Subscribe to one or ALL of NutrActive's FREE weekly e-zines for tips on how to lose weight, tone muscle, prevent disease, & cook healthy: Click Here to Subscribe Now!
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