Experience lasted for 6 years.
Walking is ideal physical activity for boosting the body and improving health. It increases energy, facilitates sleep, restores morale, regulates transit … and it would suffice for 2500 steps daily to prolong life expectancy. But the benefits of walking do not stop there. According to American researchers, walking could also act in cancer prevention.
The study was conducted by the NIH, the National Medical Research Agency of the United States. The authors studied data of more than 85,000 participants aged on average 63 years. The latter brought a wrist accelerometer to record their physical activity for 7 days. The intensity of physical activity and the number of daily steps were recorded. Scientists then examined the relationship between daily sports averages and the incidence of 13 types of cancer “including breast cancer and colorectal cancer”they said in a press release. They also observed the lifestyle, the body mass index (BMI) and the possible health problems of the subjects.
After 6 years of experience, 2,633 participants received a cancer diagnosis, according to the results published in the journal “British Journal of Sports Medicine”. “People practicing the greatest daily physical activity presented a risk of cancer of 26% to that of people practicing the lowest daily activity.” But good news for non-sports, a light and moderate to high intensity activity (such as walking), already makes it possible to obtain significant results on the risk of cancer. “The risk (of cancer) was 11 % lower than (people) making 7,000 steps per day and 16 % among those who made 9,000 per day, whatever the intensity of the walking” indicate the researchers. Beyond that, the reduction in risk capped.
These results “are among the first to assess the reduction in cancer of cancer associated with light intensity activities”rejoiced the researchers. Walking every day is therefore important but also moving in general by going shopping, gardening … all you have to do is get started!
