AACR: Exercise and Poor Sleep Combine as Odd Cancer Risk

Still think they have any idea what they are talking about?

"Although exercise has generally been found to prevent cancer, combining it with poor sleep may be a risk factor, a researcher said here."

This is what you get when you piggyback bad research onto bad research.

"'This interesting finding needs to be confirmed in subsequent studies,' Dr. McClain added."

Always be wary of an "interesting finding." Usually this means unexpected which usually means that the current data is wrong or the prior data upon which the study was predicated is wrong.

Interesting research comments are like the curse, "May you live through interesting times."

More importantly, it pays to get that they really have no good idea re: the effects of sleep or exercise on many diseases.

Even though we advocate physical and nutritional fitness at Fitness Watch, we do not claim it is a cure-all or 100% preventive or will save you from death.

We simply stay with the truths that if you want to lose weight to maintain a BMI between 18.5 and 24.9 and reduce your likelihood of developing certain bad illnesses you have to consume fewer Calories than you burn and if you want to improve your fitness you have to train, not exercise.

These are the truths.

And the rest?

They are speculation and fertile ground for "interesting" research results.