Approximately 45% of Canadians will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. While many cancers are survivable with treatment, cancer still remains the leading cause of death in Canada.
Physical activity and exercise can help you avoid developing several cancers and help you survive cancer if you have already been diagnosed. Here is how exercise helps. Exercise reduces inflammation in your body, which helps avoid cell damage and slows cell growth. It gives your immune system a boost and regulates hormones like estrogen and insulin. Exercise also helps move food waste through your intestine more quickly, so that anything harmful in food waste spends less time in your body. Additionally, if you've already got cancer, exercise alleviates fear and depression, improves physical strength and improves your immune response. Exercise can inhibit cancer cell growth by regulating the tumor environment, and reducing inflammation, which in turn may enhance treatments like chemotherapy. While you may not feel like exercising, any an all exercise will help you so lace up those shoes and go for a walk around the block, or hit the gym for some weight lifting. No gym? Grab some cans of food or fill some empty pop bottles with water and use them as weights.
We at Cancer Crossing want us all to live long healthy lives and wish those with cancer all the best as they undergo treatments.
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