{"id":443,"date":"2009-08-22T19:54:15","date_gmt":"2009-08-22T23:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=443"},"modified":"2009-08-22T19:54:15","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T23:54:15","slug":"sweating-it-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"Sweating it out"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise reduces your risk of cancer, via the <a href=\"http:\/\/well.blogs.nytimes.com\/2009\/08\/18\/phys-ed-does-exercise-reduce-your-cancer-risk\/?scp=1&#038;sq=sweat&#038;st=cse\">nytimes<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Parsing the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s activity levels, the researchers determined that, after controlling for cigarette smoking, fiber and fat intake, age, and other variables, the most physically active men were the least likely to develop cancer, particularly of the gastrointestinal tract or the lung. Even more striking, the intensity of the exercise was key. The more arduous it was, the more protective it proved. Jogging was the most strenuous activity studied, fishing among the least. The men who jogged or otherwise exercised fairly intensely for at least 30 minutes a day had \u00e2\u20ac\u0153a 50 percent reduction in the risk of dying prematurely from cancer,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d says Sudhir Kurl, medical director of the School of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition at the University of Kuopio in Finland and one of the study\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s authors.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been riding my bicycle for 30 to 60 minutes for 6 of the past 7 days<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exercise reduces your risk of cancer, via the nytimes: Parsing the men\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s activity levels, the researchers determined that, after controlling for cigarette smoking, fiber and fat intake, age, and other variables, the most physically active men were the least likely to develop cancer, particularly of the gastrointestinal tract or the lung. Even more striking, the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/?p=443\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sweating it out<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[52,55,17],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-update","tag-endurance","tag-exercise","tag-sports-metaphors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":447,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/melanarrative.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}