Build Muscle, Kill Cancer
May 26, 2009 by JD
Filed under Health News, News
Reason Number 53545 To Hit The Gym
A team of scientists led by researchers from the Karolinska Institute in Sweden has determined that men who regularly work out with weights are 30-40 percent less likely to die from a cancerous tumor.
The results, which were published in the Cancer Epidemiology journal, were based on a study of 8,677 men aged 20 to 82 over a twenty three year time span. Each volunteer in the study had regular medical check ups that included comprehensive measurements of their muscular strength.
Scientists closely monitored the subjects between the years of 1980 and 2003. One of the metrics they tracked was how many of the volunteers developed cancer and if they subsequently died from the disease.
The results clearly showed that subjects who regularly participated in a resistance training program (that means weights and/or machines) had higher muscle strength levels than those who only performed aerobic exercise (or no exercise at all), and were 30-40 percent more likely to survive a cancer outbreak.
Although the full relationship is unclear, it is evident that maintaining a thicker and more dense (i.e. stronger) musculature will improve the body’s ability to fight and maybe even prevent tumor outbreaks.
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