The link between fat and cancer

You likely know that being overweight increases your risk for cardiovascular disease and diabetes. But did you know it also increases your risk for cancer?
If you didn't, you're not alone. While around 90% of Americans know that smoking is linked to higher rates of cancer, Dr. Clifford Hudis says, the inverse is true for obesity and cancer; less than 10% of us realize how fat is related to this chronic disease.
"Obesity is a major, under-recognized contributor to the nation's cancer toll and is quickly overtaking tobacco as the leading preventable cause of cancer," Hudis and his colleagues at the American Society of Clinical Oncology write in a new position paper.
In fact, as many as 84,000 cancer diagnoses each year are linked to obesity, according to the National Cancer Institute. Excess fat also affects how cancer treatments work and may increase a cancer patient's risk of death, either from cancer or from other related causes.
The key word, Hudis says, is preventable. While we can't change the fact that we're all getting older (incidence rates for most cancers increase as patients age), we can change our weight through diet, exercise, sleep and stress management.

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TOPFIT Daily Activities --- 36 minutes of Tabatas!  

For those unfamiliar with them, Tabatas are a high intensity interval protocol where 1 interrval = 20 seconds of 100% effort followed by 10 seconds of rest.  8 intervals are done per exercise before moving on to the next exercise.  

Today I did a fun little workout of Tabata heavy bag > chinups > heavy bag > pushups > heavy bag > SB crunches > heavy bag > squats > heavy bag....with only 10 seconds rest between exercises.

~Feelin' Alive!~