Say “Bye, Bye, Bye” to those extra pounds & hit the pavement because even losing a moderate amount of weight can lower your risk for breast cancer or it’s recurrence.
For the first time, a study is showing that weight loss directly lowers hormones linked to breast cancer.
How much weight?
“Having a first goal of 10 percent of weight lost can have major health effects; it’s not as difficult as people are thinking it is.” says Dr. Anne McTiernan, director of the Prevention Center at Fred Hutchinson in Seattle, Wash., and author of the study.
In fact, losing as little as 5% of one’s body weight — 10 pounds for a 200-pound woman — drives down levels of estrogen and other hormones that raise breast cancer risk, the study finds.
Even more so, weight loss in combination with exercise drove down hormone levels to a decreased level, an effect that is linked to reducing a woman’s risk of developing breast cancer.
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xxL
Sources:
1.http://abcnews.go.com/Health/losing-weight-lower-breast-cancer-risk/story?id=16398316#.T8bC2b9UF7w
2.http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-breast-cancer-obesity-20120521,0,7865514.story
