Run for your life

Vigorous exercise may be the newest strategy for warding off cancer. Over a 10-year period, researchers at West Texas A&M University and The Cooper Institute of Dallas studied the health of more than 25,000 adult males, determining that those who were most physically fit, as measured in treadmill tests, also had a 55 percent lower risk of dying from cancer than those who weren't as physically fit.

The study, the results of which were published in the May 2002 issue of Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, also found that the most physically fit men also had lower blood pressure, lower cholesterol levels and a lower risk of death from stroke.

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