Regular exercise may reduce cancer risk in women. However, these benefits could be missed if the woman is sleeping too little. Thus put forward a number of U.S. researchers recently.

The study, involving 5968 women in Maryland confirms previous findings, stating that people who perform regular physical activity face a lower risk for esophageal cancer.

But when the researchers looked at women aged 18 to 65 years of diligent exercise every week, they found that sleep seems to play an important role in cancer risk.

People who sleep less than seven hours each night to face the risk of 47 percent for esophageal cancer than those who sleep more among women who are physically active. The researchers reported that a meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research.

“We thought it was very interesting and arouse curiosity. It’s like the first time doing research. That’s not something that has been studied extensively, “said James McClain from the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, the government, in an interview.

McClain, who led the study, said it was unclear how real is too little sleep may make people more susceptible to cancer. “Sleep has long been sufficiently related to health,” said McClain.

U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) called the lack of sleep as a public health problem that is not considered, and stated the Americans getting less sleep. The CDC states the percentage of adults who report sleeping six hours or less per night increased from 1985 to 2006.

Experts say lack of sleep on chronic sleep associated with obesity, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, heart and blood vessel disease, depression, smoking and drinking to excess.

Diabetes exacerbates

Sleep deprivation was obstructing the adrenal glands produce DHEA (dehydro-epiandrosteron), a compound that helps stimulate the sleep soundly. As a result, the body becomes more produce cortisol, a steroid trigger stress.

These conditions disrupt the body’s response to the hormone insulin, which is in charge of distribution of blood sugar throughout the body, either to be stored and reused. In the long run, the chaos of this insulin response stimulate the emergence of disturbances of type 2 diabetes symptoms are not dependent on insulin.

The low insulin response caused the decline of blood sugar (hypoglycemia), which can trigger a chain reaction. Because of the limited blood sugar levels, the brain continues to get orders for our body “stays on”. This led to a sleep disorder, which actually aggravate diabetes.

In diabetics, the sugar supply is limited due to various reasons (too late to eat, work too hard, a strict diet) can trigger hypoglycemia. If you experience hypoglycemia, patients become less sleep and interfere with healing the disease.

How would you define your cardiovascular health? Do you believe that your coronary arteries are in good condition? Did you need to change some habits to improve? Through seven simple ‘tracks’ you can check how your heart is healthy. The American Heart Association has launched a campaign to encourage citizens to review them to know “if their cardiovascular health is the ideal.”

According to his data, the profile of “ideal” is to those who:

* Never smoked or quit the habit more than a year ago.

* Have a body mass index below 25 kg/mg2

* They make a moderate-intensity physical activity for at least 150 minutes (75 if intense) every week.

* Take a balanced diet* Present levels of blood cholesterol below 200 mg / dL

* They have a blood pressure below 120/80 mm Hg

* They have a blood glucose levels under 100 mg / dL

“Everyone can do something to improve at least one of these factors,” said Donald M. Lloyd-Jones, head of the Department of Preventive Medicine American organization who has placed special emphasis on the need of each person knows their cardiovascular risk.

The American Heart Association decided to launch the campaign after learning the results of a survey on cardiovascular health in the remaining clear that there is a perception problem among participants.

According to his data, up to 39% of the sample claimed to believe have a good cardiovascular health, despite the fact that 54% of them a doctor had warned that showed cardiovascular risk factors or needed to change any habit in your life to avoid disorders in the future.

“These data indicate that many people do not associate the existence of significant risk factors, such as carrying a poor diet or not practice any physical exercise, with the possibility of having a cardiovascular disease,” explains in a statement.

The Association, which has made available a tool for citizens ‘on line’ to analyze the cardiovascular risk level, is to say 2020 has been reduced deaths from cardiovascular disease and stroke in the U.S. by 20%.