by Cathy Leman | Nov 29, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Risk Reduction, Strength Training
My suspicion is that your vision of exercise doesn’t match what actually counts as exercise – it’s possible you either don’t know about some of the options, or you’ve been brain-washed by the fitness industry to believe that exercise is... 
by Cathy Leman | Nov 21, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Fitness
Right now, while you’re still in charge and have 100% free rein to exercise on your own terms, find and do an activity that you love, because strong recovery and survivorship, even living with metastatic breast cancer, relies on physical strength. I was raised... 
by Cathy Leman | Nov 15, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Fitness, Lifestyle, Running, Strength Training
In the fitness world, intensity refers to “the rate at which an activity is being performed or the magnitude of the effort required to perform an activity or exercise.” Another way to think of it is how HARD you work at running, walking, cycling, swimming,... 
by Cathy Leman | Oct 24, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Lifestyle, Nutrition, Plant-based, Prevention, Risk Reduction
We don’t yet have true PREVENTION of breast cancer through diet, and it’s misleading to use that term as if we do. We can certainly adopt preventive lifestyle strategies and habits, but for now, the most accurate and truthful term is “risk reduction.” As... 
by Cathy Leman | Oct 18, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Nutrition, Prevention, Risk Reduction
Nutritional genomics is a broad term encompassing nutrigenetics, nutrigenomics, and nutritional epigenomics, all of which involve how nutrients and genes interact. Identifying the effects of individual nutrients or an entire nutritional plan based on an... 
by Cathy Leman | Oct 11, 2018 | Breast Cancer, Intermittent fasting, Nutrition, Risk Reduction
Feeding and fasting alignment with the circadian clock speaks to the fact that we have a daily rhythm of sleep and wake; dark, when we’re normally sleeping and fasting, versus light when we’re awake and eating. We have circadian clocks in our brain and throughout our...