Sporting active life can prevent cancerous diseases

How much exercise do we really need to protect our body??
Lots of exercise or frequent physical activity can reduce the risk of five dangerous diseases. Researchers have now found that people with increased levels of weekly physical activity are at lower risk for breast cancer, colorectal cancer, diabetes, heart disease and strokes.

Exercise and sport have a positive effect on human health, so much should be known. Regular exercise not only improves our condition and strength but also reduces the likelihood of five potentially fatal illnesses. Researchers from the University of Washington and the University of Queensland have now discovered that increased weekly physical activity can protect us from breast cancer, diabetes, colorectal cancer, heart disease and strokes. The physicians published the results of their study in the journal "The British Medical Journal" (BMJ).

Are you also one of those people who simply do not move enough and endanger their health day after day? Scientists found that sufficient exercise can protect us from five dangerous diseases. (Image: Melpomene / fotolia.com)

Lack of exercise damages our body
For their study, the researchers analyzed data from 174 older studies. These were all conducted and published between the year 1980 and the year 2016. The experts found that people with an increased level of physical activity per week had a lower risk of five different diseases. Exercise and activity is very important to our body. Physical inactivity can severely damage our health and, for example, even lead to deadly thrombosis in women.

Enough exercise is especially important for children with diabetes
Sufficient exercise has long been associated with benefits to human health. Not only is obesity avoided by a lot of exercise, also exercise is especially important for children with diabetes. In addition, active exercise can even help sufferers in the fight against cancer.

Most people do not move enough
To determine the physical activity, the doctors used a special formula. With the help of this formula so-called MET minutes could be determined. The researchers wanted to find out how much activity per week has the greatest benefit to our health. By calculating MET minutes, you can measure how much energy people burn during physical activity. Unfortunately, most people are clearly not doing enough, for example, they have already noticed a movement study by Techniker Krankenkasse (TK).

Integrate more exercise into your normal daily routine
The results of the new study clearly show that the greatest health benefits were between 3,000 and 4,000 weekly MET minutes, the researchers explain. A person can get 3,000 MET minutes a week, for example, by incorporating the following everyday activities into their daily lives: Ten minutes of climbing stairs, 15 minutes of vacuuming, twenty minutes of gardening, twenty minutes of jogging and 25 minutes of walking or riding a bicycle drive.

More deaths from heart disease and diabetes
With the aging of the population and a growing number of cardiovascular and diabetes deaths since 1990, more attention and more research on physical activity is needed, said author Professor Hmwe Kyu of the University of Washington Institute of Health Metrics and Evaluation in Seattle.

Further investigations on this topic are urgently needed
We need more studies to do the detailed quantification of total physical activity, say the doctors. So we can then make an accurate estimate of the impact of different levels of physical activity on our health, the experts add.

Official guidelines flawed?
The researchers also claimed in their study that many official guidelines of a healthy lifestyle contain too little activity and movement. People just need more exercise than previously thought. For example, British guidelines recommend that adults have 150 minutes of moderate exercise per week. These include brisk walking or gardening. Alternatively, according to these guidelines, people can also do 75 minutes of more strenuous exercises such as running and cycling.

12.5 hours of moderate training a week protect your health
However, the authors of the new study have completely different views on the length of the physical activity. They consider the public policies to be completely inadequate. 12.5 hours of moderate exercise, exercise or physical activity during the week is the best way to protect you from heart attacks, strokes, cancer and diabetes, explain the physicians. Alternatively, you can do a strenuous exercise for about six hours and 15 minutes a week, the authors of the study said. (As)