Moving For Your Health
Dancers may have a leg up when it comes to beating breast cancer. While it’s one of the leading causes of death in women, a recent study suggests there’s something you can do about it: exercise.
A tremendous amount of promising research is under way to determine the cause of breast cancer and to establish effective ways to prevent it. Still, doctors can't always explain why one woman develops breast cancer and another doesn't.
Everyone seems to know someone with breast cancer, and we wonder whether we, too, will be affected during our lifetime. All of us want to do everything we can to reduce the risk of ever getting the disease. Right now, though, we just don't know enough about what causes breast cancer and we haven't yet figured out how to keep it from happening — so we can't say that we can “prevent” it.
One thing we do know is that researchers have found that women are at a lower risk of developing cancer before menopause if they exercise regularly between the ages of 12 and 22.
So why don’t you enroll into that extra jazz or funk class. It’ll be worth it!
To make donations towards
raising breast cancer awareness
visit www.mcgrathfoundation.com.au
