In a study by Irwin et al, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, researchers found that women who did the equivalent of at least two to three hours of brisk walking each week in the year before they were diagnosed with breast cancer were 31% less likely to die of the disease than women who …

Dana Farber Cancer Institute put together this fact sheet indicating that exercise can lower the risk of recurrence of different cancers. Most of the studies have been done on breast cancer and colon cancer.

Unstoppable is a fabulous website for women with a cancer diagnosis who are looking for ways to stay active and develop good fitness routines.

David Breen is a yoga and meditation teacher in Concord, NH and owns Sharing Yoga. Join David for this gentle practice on mindful movement and mindful breathing.

The high cost of a sedentary lifestyle just became a bit more evident ― a new global study shows that inactivity drives up to 8% of noncommunicable diseases and mortality.

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The lymph organs play many roles in the body including fluid balance and immunity. In this webinar, Dr. Martha Eddy will teach you how mindfulness and gentle movement can boost your immune system by increasing lymphatic flow.

Dr. Eddy is the founder of Moving for Life, an organization dedicated to helping people with cancer improve their quality of life through movement. See her webinar in the Fitness Toolkit, and visit her website to enroll in free online classes.

Obesity may soon overtake smoking as the main preventable cancer risk.  People are eating more, and exercising less.  Among the cancers that have been shown to benefit from improved physical activity are breast and bowel cancers.

The working group of the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) published a report in the New England Journal of Medicine pooled over 1000 epidemiological studies on the impact of excess body weight on the incidence of cancer.

The World Cancer Research Fund and the American Institute for Cancer Research issued a detailed report on the impact of key lifestyle factors–diet, nutrition, and physical activity, on breast cancer.  See the report here.

A study published in Medscape Oncology, the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, found that compared with women with stable weight (±2 kg), women with sustained weight loss had a lower risk of breast cancer.