Re-Fresh Healthiness

SPORT is a natural way of maintaining health and preventing disease. Research shows, actively moving every day can keep you from risks such as heart disease and cancer.

Hmm? Time to exercise again! Just as eating, exercise should be done every day. Do not immediately think of heavy exercise sweating, light activities such as a leisurely stroll or bike ride around the compound, is a fun alternative to exercise.

Sports medicine specialist, Dr. L MM Phaidon, sport is a must. “Just as you pray and worship according to religion and faith to the spiritual needs, then the sport is a physical need,” he said.

Phaidon adding, sports or in everyday language is called an activity that exercises using physical force. Today, with increasing degenerative diseases such as heart attacks, hypertension, diabetes, cholesterol, many people eventually find out that one cause is the lack of sports activities.

Departed from it, sports can be considered as “medicine”, which then also inspire the birth of sports therapy. Better to prevent than cure. Well, other than healthy, regular exercise has been shown to prevent the emergence of diseases, especially obesity as a gateway various chronic diseases such as diabetes and vascular diseases related to heart (cardiovascular). Therefore, the problem often experienced in people with excess body weight is a high metabolism.

“Metabolism is influenced body mass. The greater the body mass, the more energy needed to burn calories. This would be dangerous if you rarely exercise,” said a professor from Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Baton Rouge, LA, MD, MPH Timothy Church PhD.

Various studies have been handed an international scale findings for the health benefits of exercise and disease prevention. A recent study conducted at the American researchers also revealed that regular exercise can protect men from prostate cancer.

Conclusions are based on test results of their 190 participants are men who have prostate biopsy. That the participants were quite active, although just to walk for a few hours per week, turned out to have significantly less tendency to get prostate cancer.

The majority of men in this study (approximately 58 per cent) in the daily movements are less and more sedentary. In other words, if they could make a walking activity, they at best just do it less than 1 hour per week. The study also reported that the exercise does a man who had prostate cancer can minimize cancer growth towards a more malignant.

“The increased portion of exercise performed, diminishing the risk of cancer,” said urologist at Duke University Medical Center in America, Dr. Jodi Antonelli, who heads the writing of the study.

Responding to a study published online in the Journal of Urology 22 September the issue, an urologist at Duke and the Durham Veterans Affairs Hospital, Dr Stephen Freedland, revealed that these findings would be useful as a reference for medical scientists who are still looking for evidence related benefits of exercise for cancer prevention.

“There are dozens of studies that report the benefits of exercise in reducing the risk of prostate cancer, some of which even large-scale studies. However, it is still confusing and leaves a question mark,” he said.

In addition to prostate cancer, the most feared of the man, women can also benefit from the exercise, namely keeping the risk of breast cancer.

This was revealed in a study team from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. They found that exercise with high intensity movements such as swimming, aerobics, and running can reduce the risk of breast cancer.

According to the researchers, training or exercise may reduce cancer risk through changes in metabolism and the immune system by reducing weight gain.

For the purposes of this study, the research team involving 110,599 woman participants in the California who traces her health history since 1995. Compared with participants who only exercised less than 30 minutes a week, women participants who diligently perform high-motion activities for more than 5 hours a week decreased known risk of invasive breast cancer by 20 percent, and 31 percent of cancers for early-stage breast cancer.
The study was conducted primarily to see the cumulative effects of sports or exercise a higher risk of breast cancer. Before being diagnosed with breast cancer, the average participant admitted only do a little exercise.

“The results of this study with additional evidence on cancer prevention through physical activity is heavy, but pleasant in the long term against the risk of breast cancer that had invasive or early-stage,” said researcher as noted in the journal Archives of Internal Medicine.