MedaFit offers a selection of scholarly and popular articles encouraging exercise for several more prevalent serious and chronic conditions.
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Brain Cancer
Breast Cancer
Depression & Mental Health
Diabetes
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
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General
- More U.S. Doctors Are Urging Patients to Exercise
- Exercise just as good as drugs in war on major disease
- A single bout of resistance exercise can enhance episodic memory performance
- Regular Exercise:Antidote for Deadly Disease?
- Run for Your Life - study shows marathon training lowers BP and aterioclerosis
- Arthritis and the Exercise Gap, New York Times
- People With Arthritis Shun Exercise — Though It Would Help, Not Hurt, NPR
- Got Arthritis? Exercise can help, NPR
- Yoga Shows Promise in Rheumatoid Arthritis
General
- Exercising with Cancer: Why and How it Helps (Web Radio Show)
- New Guidelines Emphasize the Need for Cancer Patients to Exercise
- The Economist | Cancer: A run a day keeps the tumour at bay
- Exercise Benefits Cancer Patients During and After Treatment
- Exercise Benefits Cancer Patients Even 4 Years Later
- Physical Activity Interventions for Cancer Survivors, Irwin et al
- Moving through Cancer: UCSF Your Health Matters
- Video - Exercise for Cancer: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
- Exercise Intervention Improves Fatigue, Other Outcomes in Cancer Patients*
- Fitness Program Benefits Mind and Body in Cancer Survivors
- Physical Activity and Cancer, Macmillan Cancer Support
- Yoga Practice Improves Sleep Quality and Reduces Fatigue in Cancer Survivors
- Exercising Caution: stay safe at the gym. Cancer Today
- Cancer Survivors who Exercise Live Longer
- Maximizing the Benefits of Exercise in Patients With Cancer
- How Exercise May Lower Cancer Risk - NYT
- Exercise & Cancer:Cancer Network Slide show
- Exercise Cuts the Risk for Many Cancers - study
- Cachexia - Managing weight loss through Physical Activity & Exercise
- Meta -study - Comparison of Pharmaceutical, Psychological, & Exercise Treatments for Cancer-Related Fatigue; Review; Video Cip
Brain Cancer
Breast Cancer
- Influence of Pre- and Postdiagnosis Physical Activity on Mortality in Breast Cancer Survivors:The Health, Eating, Activity, and Lifestyle Study, Irwin et al
- Exercise Eases Lymphedema Symptoms
- Randomized Trial of Yoga in Metastatic Breast Cancer
- Exercise Might Improve Survival in Breast and Colon Cancer
- Fitness May Boost Survival for Women With Breast Cancer
- 'Believing' Propels Cancer Survivors to Exercise, Study Finds
- Yoga’s Impact on Inflammation, Mood, and Fatigue in Breast Cancer Survivors: A Randomized Controlled Trial
- Acupuncture, Exercise May Ease Breast Cancer Pain
- New Studies Show Exercise is Safe, Provides Meaningful Improvement for Breast and Prostate Patients
- Studies Suggest Exercise Improves Colorectal Cancer Outcomes, NCI/NIH
- Exercise Might Improve Survival in Breast and Colon Cancer
- Associations of recreational physical activity and leisure time spent sitting with colorectal cancer survival.
- Fish, Exercise May Help Thwart Colon Cancer's Return: Study
Liver Cancer
- Exercising with lung cancer
- Strength and endurance training in the treatment of lung cancer patients in Stage 3A, 3B, and 4
- Exercises for Lung Cancer Patients
Prostate Cancer
- Exercise Can Significantly Reduce Prostate Cancer Risk
- Exercise reduces fatigue for men on ADT
- Physical Activity and Survival After Prostate Cancer Diagnosis in the Health Professionals Follow-Up Study, Kenfield et al
- Exercise therapy across the prostate cancer continuum, Antonelli et al
- Physical Activity after Diagnosis and Risk of Prostate Cancer Progression, Richman et al
- What Should We Tell Patients About Physical Activity After a Prostate Cancer Diagnosis?
- Should Men Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer Hit the Gym?
- Walking Boosts Outcome of Prostate Cancer Survivors
- Regular Exercise May Boost Prostate Cancer Survival
- Physical activity and prostate gene expression in men with low-risk prostate cancer, Magbanua et al
- Exercise may prevent incontinence from prostate surgery
- Memory, ADT & Exercise - Dr. 'Snuffy' Meyers
- Vigorous Exercise Linked to Gene Activity in Prostate- Chan, UCSF
- Exercise Protects Your Brain - Dr. Snuffy Meyers video
- Supervised exercise and prevention of ADT related side-effects
- Different exercise modalities in prostate cancer survivors on androgen deprivation therapy - Clinical Trial
- Standardized, progressive exercise program (EXCAP) to reduce psychological distress and improve inflammatory cytokines of distress among prostate cancer survivors.
- Can Bike Riding Up Prostate Cancer Risk?
- Different exercise modalities in PCa survivors on ADT
- Resistance Training reduces disability in PCa survivors on ADT
- Physical activity linked to lower death risk in men with loacalized prostate cancer
- Intense Exercise for survival among men with metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer (Clinical Trial)
- New Studies Show Exercise is Safe, Provides Meaningful Improvement for Breast and Prostate Patient
- Physical activity and prostate cancer-specific survival times
Depression & Mental Health
- Prescribing Exercise to Treat Depression, New York Time
- Exercise Gains Momentum as Psychiatric Treatment
- Exercise Training Improves Depressive Symptoms in Heart Failure
- More Evidence That Exercise May Help Fight Depression
Diabetes
- New Guidelines for Exercise in Type 2 Diabetes
- Short Breaks During Exercise OK for Diabetes Control: Study
- Strength training is preventive medicine for diabetes
- For diabetics, brief, high-intensity workouts may lower blood sugar
- Exercising less than daily still works for diabetics: study
- More Evidence That Exercise Helps Fight Diabetes
- Resistance Training Benefits Type 2 Diabetics
- Exercise Cuts Mortality in Diabetes
- Exercise Relieves Fibromyalgia Pain, Ups Cognitive Function
- Upping vigorous exercise may improve fibromyalgia
- Exercise May Ease Pain of Fibromyalgia, Study Suggests
- Resistance Exercise Training for Fibromyalgia
Irritable Bowel Syndrome
Multiple Sclerosis
- Exercise & MS - meta study
- Exercise MS-UK
- 10 Best Exercises to Boost Wellness with MS
- Exercise Therapy for Fatigue in MS
- Exercise Linked to Less Disease Activity in Kids with MS *
- Dancing with MS *
- Osteoporosis and exercise, Todd et al
- Exercise for Osteoporosis
- Light Exercise May Prevent Osteoarthritis
- Exercising with osteoporosis: Stay active the safe way, Mayo Clinic
- Fighting Parkinson's: Exercise May Be The Best Therapy
- Dance Helps Parkinson's Patients Harness Therapeutic Power of Movement
- How Dance 'Lifts The Spirits' For People With Parkinson's
- How Parkinson’s patients benefit from weight training: new study
- Tai Chi Effective to Reduce Falls in Parkinson's
- Cycling Provides a Break for Some With Parkinson's
Renal
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