Running for the bus or hurrying up the stairs for just 3 minutes a day may lower your risk of cancer, study says

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Even if you aren’t able to exercise daily, doing ‘vigorous intermittent lifestyle physical activity’ may lower your risk of more than 10 types of cancer.

Little things like taking the stairs and parking farther away from your destination may be very helpful in terms of cancer prevention, Crane tells CNBC Make It."Particularly if you do them at a higher intensity," she notes.

Using data collected from the UK Biobank, a database with health information for thousands of people, researchers were able to determine that vigorous physical activity for three to four minutes daily appeared to be very beneficial. "It speaks to what we've been talking about for a long time. We don't want to have people sitting for long periods of time," says Crane.

 

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