Friday, January 05, 2007

Reducing Breast Cancer

I have not seen or heard much about this in the MSM:

Housework cuts breast cancer risk

The research on more than 200,000 women from nine European countries found doing household chores was far more cancer protective than playing sport. Dusting, mopping and vacuuming was also better than having a physical job.

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Out of all of the activities, only housework significantly reduced the risk of both pre-and post-menopausal women getting the disease. Housework cut breast cancer risk by 30% among the pre-menopausal women and 20% among the post-menopausal women.

Imagine that. I bet if women were told that chewing shoe leather would reduce their risk of breast cancer, it would be on every newscast and talk show 24/7. But this news has been kept on the QT. I can't imagine why.

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