exercise is critical for cancer victims as well as cardiovascular and type II diebetes sufferers

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NEWLY COMPLETED SCIENTIFIC STUDY EXPLAINS WHY EXERCISE IS SO

ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL TO CANCER VICTIMS: Please take the time to read this

thoroughly. Although this study was done for the purpose of investigating

exercise on cardiovascular and type II diabetes sufferers, it shows a very key

element that should be of major concern to cancer victims as well. One of

the primary blood tests I most strongly recommend for everyone to have is

called C-Reactive

Protein. This is a basic test that shows the level of

inflammation in your body. Cancer loves inflammation because the warmth

is generated by increased blood flow from angiogenesis, the means to feed the

tumor(s)/cancer. If you do not have inflammation present in your body,

you do not have cancer growth. It is just that simple. Every single

person, no exception, who has active cancer has inflammation raging in their

body. I have seen number up to 20 times the normal levels. If the C-RP is

knocked down to less than .8, cancer activity is on the way to being dormant.

The lower you get the number, the better off you are. Mine currently

rides at .2. I have had one other person tell me theirs is .1. Most

people's end up in the .4 - .8 range as normal.

Exercise

programs lowered C-RP by an average of 1.3 mg/L in those people with measured

levels above 3.0 mf/L. Anything, repeat anything you can do to lower C-RP

is a major player in helping to drive cancer away. As noted before, I

cannot tell you what level of exercise you should be doing. Everyone has

their own limitations and needs to develop a program around their physical

capabilities. No matter how little you can do, doing something is better

than doing nothing. Move your arms and stretch if you are wheelchair

bound or bedridden. Do whatever it takes, but do something. It is

your life you are fighting for. Be positive. Be active.

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Nov 04, 2005 -

Exercise training markedly lowers plasma C-reactive protein (CRP) levels in

healthy sedentary adults with high levels of this inflammatory marker.

" The possible inflammation suppressing effect of exercise training may

partly explain the effectiveness of regular physical activity in the prevention

and treatment of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases, " researchers from Finland and the US note in the October issue of the

European Heart Journal.

Dr. Timo A. Lakka from the University

of Kuopio and colleagues

had 652 healthy white and black men and women who had not participated in

regular physical activity over the prior 6 months take part in a 20-week

standardized exercise-training program. They trained three times per week at a

level of 75% of baseline VO2-max.

At baseline, 265 subjects had low CRP levels (< 1.0 mg/L); 225 had moderate

CRP levels (1.0 to 3.0 mg/L); and 162 had high CRP levels (> 3.0 mg/L).

The principal finding in this study, the authors say, is that plasma CRP fell

by about 1.3 mg/L (or 24%) in response to 20 weeks of regular exercise in

individuals with high baseline CRP levels. The reduction in CRP was consistent

across all population groups and varied between 1.2 and 2.2 mg/L.

" This observation is potentially important from a public health and

clinical point of view, " the authors note. Individuals with high CRP

levels make up about one-fourth of the adult population and have a markedly

increased risk of type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease, they explain.

" A CRP reduction of 1-2 mg/L can significantly decrease the risk of

cardiovascular diseases and type 2 diabetes in individuals who have high CRP

levels, " Dr. Lakka and colleagues write.

In this study, CRP levels did not change in response to exercise in individuals

with low or moderate baseline CRP levels.

In a related commentary, Dr. Joep Perk from Kalmar County Public Health Centre

in Oskarshamn, Sweden suggests that for individuals at increased risk for

cardiovascular disease, elevated CRP " may become a prognostic tool for

cardiologists and general practitioners: it may identify those for whom

exercise training will be effective. "

Bruce Guilmette, Ph.D.

Survive Cancer Foundation, Inc.

http://www.survivecancer.net

But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience,

kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. Against such

things there is no law. Galatians 5:22-23 NIV