Exercise May Lower Breast Cancer Risk for Teenage Girls
May 14, 2008 by Karen Lynch
Filed under Women's Health
Do we need another reason to get our children exercising early in their lifetimes? Seems that regular exercise in adolescence and young adulthood may help lower a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer before menopause.
“The women who were the most physically active were 23 percent less likely to develop premenopausal breast cancer than the women who got the least exercise, the researchers wrote in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. High levels of exercise from ages 12 through 22 contributed the most to the protective effect, the researchers said.”
Earlier today I posted that my sisters are at high risk simply because they are my sisters. But here’s hope for their daughters.
Anyone here have a teenage daughter? And does she exercise?
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