GET MOVING – & STAMP OUT LIVER CANCER!
EXERCISE has been linked to the prevention of liver cancer in a promising new study.
Australian researchers boosted appetites in mice, causing them to develop obesity and diabetes. The team also injected the mice with a cancer-causing agent.
One group of mice was given access to a wheel for exercise, while the other group had no opportunity to exercise.
At the end of the study, 65 percent of the sedentary mice developed liver cancer compared to 15 percent of the active mice.
The disease is particularly deadly — out of the 800,000 worldwide who are diagnosed each year, more than 700,000 die.
The scientists, who report that liver cancer numbers have tripled since 1980 due to increased obesity and diabetes, also identified two molecular pathways as the connecting mechanisms between exercise and liver cancer.