Cycling Heart Rate Monitors – Rigorous Exercise Can Cut Chance Of Developing Breast Cancer In Older Women
Rigorous Exercise Can Cut Chance Of Developing Breast Cancer In Older Women
Finally I’ve got some good news for my mom and her friends-—who have been fretting over breast cancer risks ever since one of their close pal died of breast cancer a couple of years ago. To keep the dreaded disease at bay, these women on the wrong side of 50, need to stay fit and physically active. And my mom should not worry because she is quite active, even though she crossed 58 last month.
She’ll be too glad to know that moderate to vigorous exercise have been found to reduce the risk of breast cancer in post-menopausal women, especially if the women are not overweight. Simply put, it’s not just aerobics, running or fast jogging, but heavy housework like scrubbing floors or washing windows too can keep breast cancer at bay in older women. This is the finding of a group of researchers based at the U.S. National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland published in the journal BMC Cancer.
Led by Dr. Tricia M Peters at the institute, an international team of researchers investigated the link between breast cancer and vigorous exercise. Researchers asked more than 110,000 post-menopausal women to rate their physical activity levels–including everyday tasks like housework, work-related activity and leisure activity–at various stages of life. It was found that over the next six and half years of follow up, women in the group who had done more than 7 hours per week of moderate-to-vigorous exercise for the last 10 years were 16 per cent less likely to develop breast cancer than those who were inactive.
However, no link was observed between breast cancer risk and physical activity in women who were active at a younger age. Neither did light exercise (such as walking, playing golf, light jogging or less strenuous household works like vacuuming or gardening) help. The researchers categorically mention the benefits of heavy housework, garden digging, chopping wood, strenuous sports and exercise (such as, running, fast jogging and aerobics), cycling on hills (as opposed to on the flat surface), and even fast dancing.
Dr Peters writes, “Our findings could help inform the mechanisms of the physical activity-breast cancer relationship. With breast cancer still claiming so many lives, all the information of potential preventive measures
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we can get is vital”.
So, my mom—who loves heavy household work—has nothing to worry about.
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Dr Sanjit Bagchi is a renowned Physician and Medical Journalist. He runs a blog on Breast Cancer.
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High tech wins cycle races, but strangles panache – Yahoo! News
LONDON (Reuters Life) –
In Italy's Cinque Terre this May, professional cyclist David Millar swooped alone into blind corners and hairpin turns with supreme confidence, all thanks, he said, to a high-tech navigation device on his handlebars.
“The race that day was really technical, more like a mountain stage in a road race than an individual time trial, and nobody had any idea where the turns were or how to ride the course beforehand,” said Millar.
“When you are racing that hard, you need every technical advantage you can find.”
Millar, whose cycling team is sponsored by the satellite navigation device maker Garmin, arranged in April for a company representative to drive the wild, rolling hillside above Italy's Ligurian coast and map Stage 12 of the Giro d'Italia's 60-km (37.28 miles) course.
“So I could cook it into the corners hot because I knew just from looking down at my Garmin how tight the turn was. To have that GPS map on the bike definitely helped me race faster.”
“CHESS ON WHEELS”
Cycling now uses an array of wireless technology to provide real time data. Athletes can track their heart rate on a wristwatch, their speed, pedal cadence and power output on small handlebar computers, and now their location with GPS devices.
In team cars following the peloton, directors use two-way radios to communicate with riders, track the race with onboard televisions, and take mobile phone calls from other directors to arrange temporary alliances as a day's events unfold.
But some say all this technology is killing the spontaneity and tactics behind bike racing, and in September the International Cycling Union voted to phase out the use of radio earpieces in the professional peloton by 2012.
“It's chess on wheels,” said veteran Canadian cyclist Michael Barry, who rides for Team Columbia-HTC.
“Every team, every rider is wearing a radio, and young riders aren't learning how to read a race on the road. Technology takes the element of panache out of the racing, because radios eliminate a lot of the variables.”
Tour de France organizers this year felt much the same way, and banned radio earpieces for one stage, with riders and teams giving mixed reaction, calling it more leisurely but less safe, as race directors could not alert athletes to upcoming hazards.
“Why not have two days without helmets and two days without brakes?” German cyclist Jens Voigt said at the time.
“A LITTLE BIT ADVANTAGEOUS”
Barry said the GPS devices, specially made for bikes and available for sale commercially, are less of a strategic technological boon than the radios, as they provide no two-way communication with other riders or team directors.
“It's a little bit advantageous, but at 45-km an hour on a windy road with 200 other guys if you are trying to look at a GPS it's the same as if you are trying to look at your cell phone,” he said.
“Teams will always try to figure out ways to benefit from technology. If we all had GPSes then maybe they would have to ban the Garmins.”
(Editing by Paul Casciato)
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