A recent scientific study led by US researchers, to exercise and maintain a fitness sport in middle age reduces the risk of cancer, such as lung cancer and colon later at the age of 65 and above, especially for men.
The benefits of exercise
Researchers at the exhibition of their research and found that men who exercise and keep fit from the beginning of middle age are less likely to die by a third due to cancer of the colon and lung as compared to men other non-athletes.
Exercise and fitness reduce the risk of death
Said researcher Dr. Susan Lakosky, a professor of medicine at the University of Vermont, that reduce the risk of death due to cancer due to the stability of sex hormones levels and strengthen the immune system and decrease inflammation for men fit individuals, adding that these things may work together to prevent cancer, as well as reducing the risk of death from cancer or heart disease.