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Sunday, November 25, 2007
Swimming: For Fitness.

Swimming can be both therapeutic and prophylactic, helping people overcome and even prevent all sorts of illness and disabilities. Part of the reason for this is that water buoyancy makes it a non-impact form of exercise, removing the stress placed on the joints and therefore opening it up to people with a wide range of conditions for whom land-based activities are problematic. It is also a sport that exercises a wide range of muscle groups, builds muscular strenght and endurance and develops self-confidence.

Duncan Newby, the national swimmer coach to Bermuda and an active swimmer himself, was diagnosed as having oesophagal cancer while still young. He was losing weight and could not swallow. Originally, he put his problems down to the fact that he was training hard for his first Master's competition. Following an endoscopy in January 1998, he was told he had cancer and had to be operated on immediately. He was given a 2% chance of survival but with the help of friends and family, he went to the most expensive cancer clinic in the world, the Memorial Sloane Kettering, New York.

The clinic told Duncan that the fact he had swimmer's lungs might give him a slim chance of survival. Throughout large courses of chemotheraphy and radiation, Duncan continued to swim. Just 3 weeks after the operation, he swam in a 1300m open water race! And a few weeks later, he swam in a 4km open water race. This was despite the fact that Duncan had lost his stomach, oesophagus and part of his diaphragm.

Duncan's cancer is now in remission and he feels he owes his life to his swimming. In the summer of 2000, he swam a 10km race in 2hrs and 55mins. He now plans to give talks in the UK about the wonders of swimming as a source of life extension and quality of life. This remarkable case of one man's determination to survive against the odds epitomises how swimming can help improve health even in the most serious cases.

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