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The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

FFF 048: Running For Your Life – How & Why Exercise Helps Fight Cancer - with Dr Ian Lahart

The Food For Fitness Podcast | Nutrition | Training | Lifestyle | Healthy Living

Scott Baptie

Fitness, Health & Fitness

4.8631 Ratings

🗓️ 26 April 2016

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Cancer is something that will have directly or indirectly affected almost everyone who has listened to this podcast. But despite it’s prevalence, lot’s of us know so little about it.

This week, cancer researcher and sport scientist – Dr Ian Lahart – is on the show to talk about exercise and cancer and why exercise can reduce your cancer risk. He’ll explain how different lifestyle factors can contribute to cancer, the types of cancer that respond best to exercise interventions, why exercise can reduce instances of certain cancers but not others, how exercise can benefit patients, why physical activity affects cancer survivorship and lots more.

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0:00.0

Are you tired of falling off the proverbial fitness bandwagon?

0:04.0

Join us as we share simple, realistic, and above all, achievable weight loss advice

0:09.0

based on evidence gathered from helping hundreds of people look, feel, move, and perform better.

0:15.0

You don't need to starve yourself or hop on the latest fitness craze.

0:19.0

We'll show you how the smallest change can give you the

0:21.7

largest impact. Now join your healthy living host, Scott Baptee, for the Food for Fitness podcast.

0:34.5

You're listening to episode 48 of the Food for Fitness podcast, brought to you by

0:39.9

Food for Fitness.co.uk. I'm your host, Scott Abtie, and this week we're talking all

0:46.0

about exercise and cancer prevention. Now, my guest is Dr. Ian LaHart, and he's based at the University of Wolverhampton.

0:56.1

And his main area of research is exactly that.

0:59.1

How does exercise influence the rates of cancer survivorship and minimize the risk of cancer?

1:08.7

So in this episode, we'll be looking at all the lifestyle factors,

1:12.5

the hereditary issues surrounding cancer. If the exercise is good for us because of its

1:18.8

effects on weight or if there are other issues there, what cancers specifically have been shown

1:24.2

to be lessened or the risk lessened due to exercise, looking at the benefits

1:29.8

in cancer patients of doing exercise, looking at the nutrition aspect side of things, and also

1:36.3

looking at cancer as a whole, it's such a subject that's probably touched almost everyone

1:42.2

who listens to this podcast, but there's probably many

1:45.2

aspects of cancer that you just don't know about, or you've heard of the basics, but you don't

1:50.6

really understand it. I mean, I'm talking from personal experience here. This episode,

1:55.6

there was a lot of new information for me, and I really got a much greater understanding of

2:00.1

cancer as a result of it.

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