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This Fitness Toolkit supports the information and guidance you receive in the Fitness Module of the Anticancer Lifestyle Program. By showing you the evidence for the connection between fitness and health, and providing some tools you need to develop a regular fitness routine, the resources on this page will help you stay engaged with this essential part of your Anticancer lifestyle.
Exercise guidelines for cancer survivors
Campbell et al convened an interdisciplinary expert roundtable to to advance exercise recommendations beyond public health guidelines and toward prescriptive programs specific to cancer type, treatmen…
American College of Sports Medicine Expert Panel finds that exercise lowers risk of many cancers
The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) convened a group of 40 experts to perform a comprehensive review of the research literature and summarize the level of the evidence concerning physical a…
World Cancer Research Fund lifestyle recommendations to reduce cancer risk
The World Cancer Research Fund released recommended lifestyle recommendations that have been shown to reduce cancer risk.
Physical activity lowers the risk of many cancers
A review by Ruiz-Casado et al, published in the journal Trends in Cancer found that regular, moderate-intensity physical activity (PA) (e.g.
Healthy lifestyle, including plenty of physical activity, cuts colon cancer risk
An analysis published in the American Journal of Epidemiology calculated the incidence and relative risk of colon cancer in women up to age 70.
Walking lowers risk of post-menopausal breast cancer
A study by Hildebrand et al, published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, report that in a study of over 70,000 post-menopausal women, the most active women (those report…
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