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Associate Professor of Population Sciences Rose E. Frisch, in conjunction with the Harvard Population and Development Center, showed that contrary to popular belief, exercise does not lead to osteoporosis, nor does it indefinitely reduce fertility in women...
...example, it is widely believed that exercise adversely affects a woman's ability to carry a pregnancy. Frisch's studies proved this is false. Women who exercise have no more stillbirths or miscarriages than those who don't exercise, she said...
...Frisch also disproved the common notion that excessive exercise makes women more susceptible to bone fractures and osteoporosis. The myth, Frisch says, first arose from other studies establishing a strong incidence of bone fractures in ballet dancers. Frisch says the correlation is probably due to the increased incidence of anorexia among dancers, not exercise...
...fact, Frisch has shown that long-term moderate exercise reduces women's chances of getting cancer in the reproductive organs...
...Frisch discovered that women who had not exercised during college were twice as likely to get breast cancer as athletes, and two and a half times more likely to get cancer in the reproductive system...