Ride for Gut Cancer

Written By Kim Manunui

Gut Cancer Foundation are proud charity partners of Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge.

Over 6000 New Zealanders are diagnosed with a gut cancer every year. Gut cancers include oesophageal, stomach, liver, pancreatic, gallbladder, bile duct and bowel cancer. Sadly, the survival rates for this group of cancers are particularly low with over 50% of those diagnosed not surviving beyond 5 years.

To improve these outcomes, the Gut Cancer Foundation, with the support of events like Lake Taupō Cycle Challenge, fund research into ways to better detect, diagnose, and treat these cancers. We also provide awareness and education into symptoms to promote earlier detection and ways we can all reduce our risk.

Exercise is a really simple way you can reduce your risk of developing a gut cancer for several reasons:

  • There is strong evidence that higher levels of physical activity are linked to lower risk of several types of gut cancers including bowel, oesophageal and stomach cancer.

  • Bone health is important, especially after the age of 25 as our bone density starts to decrease. Exercise, even just brisk walking, increases your bone strength and helps to keep it in good shape long into later life.

  • The amount of exercise you get in will have a direct reflection in how you feel. This is due to endorphins, blood flow, and hormones that release when you move about. Move more and feel better.

  • Vitamin D! Exercise is great, especially when outside in some delicious sunlight. Just 30 minutes outdoors a day will improve your melatonin levels at night to help with your sleep AND it will even improve your gut microbiome composition, so your gut is healthier too.

For more information on what the Gut Cancer Foundation does, including the research we fund, symptoms and risks of gut cancers and personal stories of those affected by the cancers, go to www.gutcancer.org.nz

To ride for the Gut Cancer Foundation, register and set up your fundraising page here: https://laketaupocyclechallenge23.grassrootz.com/gut-cancer-foundation

Kim Manunui

Hi, I’m Kim and I work with a great team to help individuals, as well as small and not so small businesses get their message, product and services to the world using digital media and creating wonderful websites that don’t cost the earth.

I was born in Canada, and grew up around Vancouver and the mountains of British Columbia. My love of pristine environments led me to New Zealand and eventually to the mountains, lakes and rivers of the central North Island which is home. My family’s heritage is here, and it’s from here that Korio traverses the planet.

The digital world is never static and neither are we.

And I say ‘we’ because I work with an awesome group of talented people who I gather together as required to complete a project.  Whatever your business, not-for-profit or individual needs are we gather the best team to get the job done.

Collaboratively we are creative, share sustainable values and work hard for great outcomes because that’s the buzz of satisfaction that drives us.

If you have an audience and market to reach, we can make that happen. Creative design, words that work and smart behind the scenes stuff that cuts through the online noise. We’ll design your website and then build it. We’ll manage the content as well as all your hosting needs. We can handle your online advertising so you get noticed,
and we’ll manage your social media presence so you get the clicks, likes and engagement to grow your business. All within the budget you set, because none of this needs to cost the earth.  And the job doesn’t stop when your website goes live. We are your virtual business partner.

https://www.korio.co.nz
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