Word: healthly
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...group of experts last week began a three-year study, for which they received a $300,000 National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant, to closely examine the effects of 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...
Athletics and Health...
Rose E. Frisch, an associate professor at the School of Public Health (SPH) and principal investigator of the research team, has worked for more than a decade studying the age of menarche (the onset of menstruation) and the long-term reproductive health of former women athletes, and this work forms the basis for the current NIH study...
Scientists have already associated a high risk of breast cancer with early menarche, Frisch says, so the later a girl's menarche, the better her future health will probably be. "It is a good thing for young girls to start exercise early," she says...
...public health implications of those findings are a reason to find out" the biological basis of this phenomenon, says Robert Barbieri, an associate professor at the Medical School and another member of the research team...