{"id":377253,"date":"2026-04-13T11:42:06","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:42:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377253\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T11:42:06","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T11:42:06","slug":"how-exercise-helps-reduce-cancer-risk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/377253\/","title":{"rendered":"How exercise helps reduce cancer risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"PGFGYFJ35RHJRBP7LEVZVG3ECA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">All the men in my family closest to me, including my dad and both grandfathers, have died of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/health\/2025\/04\/28\/cardiac-arrest-cpr-aed-training\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">cardiac arrest<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"SASIU2VETJAUROWSPKOS7KZLMQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Knowing that up to 60 percent of susceptibility to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/07\/28\/science-prevent-heart-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">heart disease<\/a> can be attributed to genetics, I started exercising a few times a week in college in an effort to lower my own risk. I\u2019ve kept it up for decades and now engage in 30 minutes of aerobic exercise daily. What I didn\u2019t realize when I started was that exercising would also substantially lower my risk for developing certain cancers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"All the men in my family closest to me, including my dad and both grandfathers, have died of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-377253","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-new-zealand","11":"tag-newzealand","12":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}