A new study that included 287,000 women and noticed their mammogram habits, says that increasing weight can boost the risk of developing breast cancer in older women.

Dr. Karla Kerlikowske, who led the study, says: “There are higher levels of circulating estrogens in women have increased body weight that leads to promote tumor growth in them.”

In another study, Kerlikowske and team have examined postmenopausal women with hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and they have found higher risk of breast cancer in them.

In this new study, they looked at postmenopausal women who didn’t receive HRT. The study is to be published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute, Dec.3 issue.

A nine-week yoga program

According to the report of Philadelphia researchers a nine-week yoga program demonstrated quite significant development in their walking pace and body’s steadiness besides that they also got a centimeter in height.

Clinical Movement Analysis Society

In an in interview with Reuters Health, the study chief Dr. Jinsup Song of Temple University stated “The only clarification may be that they are standing more straight, not so much squatted.”The discoveries were issued on 4th of April in the annual meeting of Clinical Movement Analysis Society.

Better balance in elderly women

The past studies have examined yoga to get better balance in elderly women; Song found that they have characteristically used a comparatively difficult kind of the practice. In this present study he and Marian Garfinkel who is a specialized yoga instructor and song’s colleague, toiled with B.K.S. Iyengar, the creator of Iyengar Yoga, to put up a program specially planned for older people. According to Song, who confessed that even he himself realized that some of the poses were challenging, “The poses were very fundamental — how to stand up, how to bend ahead,and on sides ”

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