Joseph A. Darmiento

A study of more than 3,000 Long Island women found that those who did 10 to 19 hours of exercise a week had about a 30 percent lower risk of getting breast cancer than those who were sedentary.

The study, published Monday in the journal Cancer , also found that gaining a substantial amount of weight after menopause may eliminate the benefits of exercise.

The study used data from 1,504 Long Island women ages 20-98 with breast cancer and 1,555 similar women without the disease. They were part of the Long Island Breast Cancer Study Project, government-funded studies designed to look at possible environmental causes of breast cancer on Long Island .

The studies haven’t identified any environmental factors that could be responsible for the incidence of the disease. The women were interviewed in the early 1990s about their exercise habits and other lifestyle factors, such as smoking and drinking, over their lifetime.
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Researchers have some reassuring news for the legions of coffee drinkers who can’t get through the day without a latte, cappuccino, iced mocha, double-shot of espresso or a plain old cuppa joe: That coffee habit may help you live longer.

A new study that tracked the health and coffee consumption of more than 400,000 older adults for nearly 14 years found that java drinkers were less likely to die during the study than their counterparts who eschewed the brew. In fact, men and women who averaged four or five cups of coffee per day had the lowest risk of death, according to a report in Thursday’s edition of the New England Journal of Medicine.

The research doesn’t prove that coffee deserves the credit for helping people live longer. But it is the largest analysis to date to suggest that the beverage’s reputation for being a liquid vice may be undeserved.

“There’s been concerns for a long time that coffee might be a risky behavior,” said study leader Neal Freedman, an epidemiologist with the National Cancer Institute who drinks coffee “here and there.” “The results offer some reassurance that it’s not a risk factor for future disease.”
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NEWINGTON, N.H., April10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ –Planet Fitness gyms national donated $607,000 to The Breast Cancer Research Foundation by a special promotion that took place from Mar 26th to April 4th

For every new member who signed up at Planet Fitness, $10 was donated to BCRF. More than 320 Planet Fitness gyms participated in the promotion. During the sale, memberships cost just $10 down, and then $10 a month.

This is the third straight year that Planet Fitness has held a springtime promotion to benefit BCRF. In the three years, Planet Fitness has donated $1,199,522 to BCRF through the promotion. This year’s donation of $607,000 is the largest to date and tops the total amount donated in the previous two years. To See the rest of this story visit PRNewswire