The Women's Health Initiative Study has now confirmed that by walking between 75 minutes a week (which, by the way, breaks down to just 10 minutes a day) and 2.5 hours a week, you can actually reduce your risk of breast cancer by 18 percent.

Along with watching our low-density lipoprotein (LDL) levels so as to decrease our heart-attack risk, doctors now say we should also be keeping an eye on a substance called lipoprotein a [Lp(a)].