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Teen Exercise Protects Against Breast Cancer

"Women who engage in physical activity not only during adolescence but during adulthood lower their risk."

Get your daughters off the couch: New research shows exercise during the teen years -- starting as young as age 12 -- can help protect girls from breast cancer when they're grown.
Middle-aged women have long been advised to get active to lower their risk of breast cancer after menopause.
What's new: That starting so young pays off, too.
"This really points to the benefit of sustained physical activity from adolescence through the adult years, to get the maximum benefit," said Dr. Graham Colditz of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, the study's lead author. Read more
Breastfeed-athon in London

National Breastfeeding Awareness Week encourages more women to breastfeed in public via ClipSyndicate
Breastfeeding halves rheumatoid arthritis risk

"Although it is difficult to separate the effect of breast feeding from that of childbirth, our data suggest that rheumatoid arthritis is inversely associated with long-term breastfeeding, rather than with the number of children born"

LONDON - Women who breastfeed their babies longer are less likely to get rheumatoid arthritis, Swedish researchers said on Tuesday.Mothers who breastfed for 13 months or more were half as likely to get the ... via Reuters

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