{"id":346178,"date":"2026-01-01T10:03:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346178\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T10:03:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T10:03:07","slug":"short-workouts-can-halt-bowel-cancer-newcastle-university-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/346178\/","title":{"rendered":"Short workouts can halt bowel cancer, Newcastle University study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr Orange, a senior lecturer in clinical exercise physiology, said it showed &#8220;even a single workout&#8221; could make a difference.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;What&#8217;s remarkable is that exercise doesn&#8217;t just benefit healthy tissues, it sends powerful signals through the bloodstream that can directly influence thousands of genes in cancer cells,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The research team said their finding offered a &#8220;potential mechanistic explanation for the protective effects of exercise&#8221; against bowel cancer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Genevieve Edwards, chief executive at the charity Bowel Cancer UK, said people should aim for 150 minutes of exercise each week, such as brisk walking, cycling or swimming.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eating fibre from whole grains, pulses, fruits and vegetables, avoiding processed meat and cutting down on alcohol also reduced the risk.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;Making lifestyle changes can be a challenge, but we believe it&#8217;s worth the effort.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dr Orange, a senior lecturer in clinical exercise physiology, said it showed &#8220;even a single workout&#8221; could make&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346179,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46],"tags":[6647,102,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-346178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}