Word: cancerous
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Women who have been forcing themselves to exercise regularly to get into shape and lose unwanted pounds may find that the benefits of their athletic pursuits extend beyond a trim look. Past research has determined that exercise may lead to a decreased chance of breast and reproductive tract cancer in women, and four Harvard researchers now hope to discover the biological basis for this reduced risk...
...exercise on "elite oarswomen," who are female athletes between 20 and 30 years of age and are competing for spots on the lightweight or heavyweight national rowing teams. The research, which should explain why only some exercising women experience the menstrual dysfunction that can lead to a reduced cancer risk, will include studies on the amount and location of fat present in the bodies of participants, as well as body fat's effect on the way estrogen is metabolized...
...divine that sex was the apple that lured Jimmy Swaggart from his cushy Eden atop the garbage heap of televangelists. After all, Swaggart not only called his fellow philanderer Jim Bakker a cancer, but he also led the battle to coerce convenience stores into removing Playboy and Penthouse from their shelves...
...lower blood pressure and a better mood are not incentive enough for starting to exercise regularly, consider this: scientists now believe that lifelong physical exertion also protects against cancer and diabetes. In Boston last week researchers at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science reported that athletic women cut their risk of breast and uterine cancer in half and of the most common form of diabetes by two-thirds. Says Harvard Reproductive Biologist Rose Frisch, who led the 5,398-woman study: "The long-term effects of early exercise on health are impressive...
...touchstones, the Swiss downhiller and the Wisconsin speed skater could have been a little tidier: Zurbriggen, 25, triumphed and fell; Jansen, 22, fell and . . . fell again. The death of his sister on the first morning of competition, following a long siege of cancer, made Jansen's 500-meter and 1,000-meter events seem both less and more significant. "Maybe," he admitted at the last, "there is a slight sense of relief that I can go home now and be with my family." And yet he planned to return after the funeral to cheer Eric Flaim and the other Americans...