Less fun for girls?
Just returned from holiday and glancing at the headlines saw this one warning all women to ‘Cut food and drink to avoid breast cancer’. The Daily Mail headline is explained further by the subheading ‘18,000 women a year could be saved by exercise and dieting’
Here’s the thing: Research by none other than the World Cancer Research Fund (WCRF) has shown that by keeping your Body Mass Index in the lower part of the normal range of 18 – 25, exercising 30 minutes a day (yes 30!) breastfeeding your babies and drinking no more than one small glass of wine a day, you can definitely decrease your chances of getting breast cancer.
Okay, okay I know that’s asking a lot so let’s see how girls who ‘just wanna have fun’ can still enjoy life.
Let’s look at some popular recreational activities enjoyed by women: smoking, recreational drugs, dancing, retail therapy and sex.
Smoking: Research has definitely shown that this is very bad for you. (And I’ve checked with my lawyers before saying this.)
Recreational drugs: Also bad for your health and even worse if you end up in jail for using them.
Retail Therapy: Yes, that’s okay. Oh, sorry I remember that nobody’s got any money these days.
So that leaves Sex and Dancing..
Sex: Yes, it’s still good for you as long as you keep it safe. Try hard to be as active as possible so as to increase the exercise component (see above).
Dancing: It’s wonderful exercise, great fun and the best game in town for grown up boys and girls. Read this poem by the late Adrian Mitchell and then go out and dance, dance, dance…
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