Answer: Movement
Clues: “Action” and “Activity”
To reduce your risks for at least 13 types of cancer, jog up and down the nearest steps for three minutes or stand up from your desk or couch for 30.
Either strategy might help drop your risks of certain cancers by as much as 7 percent, according to a new study of how the ways we move — and don’t move — during the day affect our chances of malignancies.
The study, published in July in BMC Medicine, is one of the first to examine in detail how replacing sitting time with almost any kind of activity alters cancer risk.
On average, American adults sit for nearly 10 hours a day, studies show. Being so sedentary is not good for us. Substantial evidence links uninterrupted sitting with heightened risks for heart disease, Type 2 diabetes, obesity and other conditions.Ask The Post AIDive deeper
Sitting also makes us more vulnerable to many cancers, studies show.
Ideally, we should reduce the amount of time we spend seated every day and be more physically active instead.