Short intervals of physical activity every day can reduce your risk of cancer by 32%.
Cancer prevention can begin with daily activities that take up to five minutes of your day.Increasing the intensity of everyday physical activities — even if it’s for a short period of time —, analysed 22,000 adults around the age of 62, particularly those who engaged in non-exercise, vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity, or VILPA. Those who engaged in this behaviour for just a few minutes per day were more likely to have a lower risk of cancer than those who did no activity at all.
People in the study who had a minimum of three to four minutes of VILPA everyday were associated with a 17% to 18% reduction in cancer risk compared to people who didn’t exercise. The sample of people with four and a half minutes a day were associated with a larger reduction in cancer incidents .Matthew Ahmadi
, a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Sydney’s Faculty of Medicine and Health and School of Health Sciences, told HuffPost. “Typical VILPA activities include bursts of very fast walking, walking uphill, walking carrying backpack or shopping bags, stair climbing, and vigorous domestic housework or gardening,” saidA simple way for someone to know if they are doing VILPA is to pay attention to common signs of exertion. For example, when they do the activity, energetically enough to get out of breath, followed by a felt increase in the heart rate within about 20 to 30 seconds.
There are a few limitations with the study. For example, 96% of the participants were white, making it hard to apply these findings to the general population. Additionally, the activities were self-reported, which could leave some room for human error.The study’s researchers concluded that “daily VILPA may be a promising intervention for cancer prevention in populations not able or motivated to exercise in leisure time.
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