Keeping on the best physical condition possible is extremely beneficial for the health and overall wellbeing, as countless studies have shown throughout the years. However, staying fit also plays an important role in decreasing the chances of developing breast cancer, also known as women’s silent enemy. Doing physical stimulating chores around the house every single day, past menopause, decreases the chances of getting cancer.

For women who do a fair amount of housework every day are 17 percent less exposed to the risk of breast cancer, as opposed to those ladies who rarely leave the sofa or spend their spare time in less-engaging activities, researchers have found. However, it seems a distinction must be made here in the degree of difficulty of the task performed, since only medium-intensity to vigorous chores will return results in terms of cutting down the chances of cancer.

However, previous research has shown a connection between any type of exercise and the risk of developing breast cancer, as we also informed you back in March. Physically fit women are safer from cancer than their counterparts who do not work out or lead generally sedentary lives, as a study conducted between 1970 and 2001 on 14,000 women aged 20-83 has shown. What this means is that it’s not necessarily housework that can protect us from breast cancer, but rather any type of exercise, one might infer.

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