{"id":359884,"date":"2025-08-20T16:46:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359884\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T16:46:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T16:46:12","slug":"gainsborough-fighting-fit-classes-help-those-affected-by-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/359884\/","title":{"rendered":"Gainsborough Fighting Fit classes help those affected by cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Another resident, Philip, has been attending the sessions since they began three years ago because he didn&#8217;t want to lose his social skills. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Anybody could sit at home with a cup of tea,&#8221; said the 82-year-old. &#8220;[The sessions] help people to forget we&#8217;re not dead, including us.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorkshirecancerresearch.org.uk\/research-story\/canfit-exercise-to-reduce-the-risk-of-cancer-recurrence\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Yorkshire Cancer Research, external<\/a>, fitness and regular exercise can decrease chances of cancer recurrence.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alice Carter, head of Healthier Communities at Lincoln City Foundation, said the Gainsborough sessions connected those with shared experiences and provided peer support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another resident, Philip, has been attending the sessions since they began three years ago because he didn&#8217;t want&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":359885,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4322],"tags":[1630,105,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-359884","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fitness","8":"tag-fitness","9":"tag-health","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115062111495728487","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359884\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/359885"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}