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Posts tagged with 'exercise'
Clarification to Study of Weightlifting for Lymphedema Patients
Here’s the latest from the National Lymphedema Network (NLN) regarding the PAL study by Dr. Kathryn Schmitz and colleagues, Weight Lifting in Women with Breast-Cancer-Related Lymphedema, published in the New England Journal of Medicine on August 13, 2009. When the article first appeared the media overreacted, making several inaccurate and misleading statements about the research. The NLN and many of its affiliated clinics received phone calls from patients and professsionals expressing frustrating about the inaccurate reporting and requesting clarification of the study results and what these mean for individuals living with or at risk for lymphedema.
The NLN Medical Advisory Committee contacted Dr. Schmitz, who agreed to clear up misconceptions about what the PAL trial did and did not show, and to emphasize the continued need to follow risk reduction guidelines. (See the NLN Position Papers on Risk Reduction and Exercise.)
We hope that Dr. Schmitz’s response (Weight Lifting and Lymphedema: Clearing Up Misconceptions) will help clarify the study results for lymphedema survivors and people at risk for lymphedema. The Executive Director of the NLN recommends that lymphedema therapists apply the protocols for the PAL intervention to their practices.
Jan
Could Exercise be a Fountain of Youth?
A new study has revealed, at a molecular level, why those who regularly exercise are healthier as they age. The active people had cells that, when viewed under a microscope, were younger than those of the inactive people who participated in the study. This finding may explain how exercise helps prevent degenerative diseases associated with aging, such as heart attacks, diabetes and cancer.
Even though I got cancer at 43 despite my regular running routine, I believe this study: exercise is vital to health and keeps people youthful. Perhaps I would not have endured my grueling treatments as well if I had not exercised regularly before cancer struck.
The article describing this research can be found at: http://www.webmd.com/fitness-exercise/news/20091201/molecular-proof-exercise-keeps-you-young?ecd=wnl_skin_120909
Keep those muscles moving!
I thought you’d be interested in this story from the CapeCodOnline.com web site:
A new study by University of South Carolina researchers indicates aerobically fit women are three times less likely to die of breast cancer than those who exercise rarely. To see more details on what it means to be fit, check out the following link:
http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090326/LIFE/903260303&emailAFriend=1
Blessings!
Jan
