Get Your Exercise!
It turns out that one of the best ways to beat cancer is to take regular exercise. People who stay active have half the risk of dying from any disease, including cancer. Recent studies show that those who burn fewer than 2,100 calories a week were 48 percent more likely to die from disease than those who burnt more than 12,600. For cancer survivors, daily exercise could extend their lives even further.
Regular exercise has already been shown to lengthen life, but now research reveals that regular exercise can extend the lives of cancer patients. A recent study used data from more than 1,000 men who had cancer and studied their physical exercise including walking, stair-climbing and sports. Those with cancer and those with heart disease showed nearly 50% less deaths from either cause. Researchers said that physical activity should be promoted to those with these diseases.
It is also known that physical activity helps with arthritis and circulatory diseases. And because exercise improves the respiratory and immune systems, they are linked to extended lifespan and reduce the chance of getting cancer in the first place. A 2010 UK study showed that incidence of breast cancer, uterine cancer and colon cancer were all increased with less than the recommended minimum exercise.
“If those who are sick would exercise their muscles daily, women as well as men, in outdoor work, using brain, bone, and muscle proportionately, weakness and languor would disappear. Health would take the place of disease, and strength the place of feebleness.” Medical Ministry, page 297
“Let the patients be shown the necessity of practicing the principles of health reform, if they would regain their health. Let the sick be shown how to get well by being temperate in eating and by taking regular exercise in the open air…” Counsels on Diet and Foods, page 444