Just 4 to 5 minutes of “vigorous physical activity' could reduce cancer risk among people who have been generally inactive, a new study in the journal JAMA Oncology found.
"We know the majority of middle-aged people don’t regularly exercise, which puts them at increased cancer risk, but it’s only through the advent of wearable technology like activity trackers that we are able to look at the impact of short bursts of incidental physical activity done as part of daily living," said lead author Emmanuel Stamatakis, a professor at the Charles Perkins Centre atThe researchers looked at cancer-related diagnoses, hospitalizations and deaths for the...
Examples include climbing stairs, carrying heavy grocery bags, completing physical household tasks, walking fast and playing high-energy games with children."VILPA is a bit like applying the principles ofThis is thought to be the first study to evaluate the association of VILPA with cancer incidence, the authors wrote.
The study did have some limitations — primarily the fact that a vast majority of the adults analyzed were White.
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