Only a Third of Patients Meet Minimum Requirements
Even though the benefits of exercise for breast cancer patients are well known, only a third of patients meet the minimum recommended levels, according to a new study published in the journal Cancer. Researchers from the University of North Carolina studied the activity levels of 1,700 women before and after their breast cancer diagnosis, and found that 60 percent decreased their daily exercise after being diagnosed with breast cancer.
Experts say 150 minutes of exercise per week is ideal for women with or recovering from breast cancer, but only 35 percent of the women in the study met that recommendation.
“Physical activity after a breast cancer diagnosis has been shown to improve a patient's chances of survival, and there is also some evidence that it may help to reduce the risk of breast cancer returning,” Caroline Dalton, with the UK charity Breakthrough Breast Cancer, told BBC News. "Keeping active may also help patients cope, both during and after treatment, by improving general health and well-being."
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Juice Cleanses: Health Hocus Pocus
It’s summertime, and that means beach season is finally here. But if your beach bod isn’t ready, you might be looking for a quick way to slim down – and for that, a cleanse might sound like a good idea. But are these programs an effective way to get the body you want? Or are they just the “get rich quick” schemes of the health world?
“The reason people do cleanses is that they want to get a jump-start on weight loss or they want to rid their body of toxins,” says Caroline Cederquist, a physician specializing in nutrition and founder of the diet food delivery service bistroMD. “But most cleanses have people severely restricting their calories by drinking only juice. These types of cleanses are neither effective nor safe.”
While cleanses might appear to work in the short term, they are not a long-term solution for weight loss and can be dangerous, says Lauren Blake, a registered dietitian with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center. “There’s not a lot of scientific evidence showing that cleanses work,” she says. “When you’re restricting your calories so heavily, you’re going to lose weight, but people who follow these cleanses tend to put the weight right back on and leave themselves at risk of developing nutritional deficiencies.” [Read more: Juice Cleanses: Health Hocus Pocus]
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You Get a Do-Over: Why Aren't You Taking It?
I love reading about medicine – yes, it's true, writes U.S. News blogger Michael F. Roizen. Because I do a radio show on RadioMD.com on Saturdays, I force myself to read 50 medical articles Wednesday or Friday evenings and most Saturdays. The word "force" is really a mistake, as I love it. I’ve started to revise my book with Dr. Oz, "YOU Staying Young," and even start a new book because these data are so impressive they need to be translated to motivate you – and this blog includes passages from these two books.
Why do I love reading 50 articles from medical journals, which don't exactly feature the most flowing prose? Because they tell of persistent progress – of progress so mind-stretching that I often have to stop and read the sports pages just to be grounded.
Recent articles tell of using an antisense molecule to almost eradicate the protein that seems to stimulate inflammation in Alzheimer’s brains and may even cause the disease. They also touch on how to splice out DNA that causes a specific cancer gene by mimicking the way bacteria rid themselves of virus invaders using something called CRISPR enzymes. Also being studied are low-level laser therapies that activate stem cells to replace joint cartilage damaged by osteoarthritis and replace brain cells damaged by stroke. While all these were in animal studies, they and many other articles I evaluate each week may mean that if you’re healthy in 2024, you will likely live healthily for much longer than you can even imagine. But similar journals tell us that you (if you are typical) may not make it to 2024 as healthy. [Read more: You Get a Do-Over: Why Aren't You Taking It?]
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