The obesity increases risk of diabetes,hypertension and ischaemic heart diseases is well-known.But the obesity can also significantly increase cancer risk is even more chilling news,a 2008 meta-analysis of hundreds of cancer studies shows that 14 to 20 per cent of cancer deaths were related to obesity.
The traditional image of cancer patient is of thin,wasted person;so one tends to rationalise that a jolly,plumps person would never get cancer.But the truth is otherwise.
Among men,those with a body Mass Index five points above the normal run an increased colon cancer risk over 55 percent.Women with a similar increases in BMI have a more than 50 percent increased risk of developing uterus or breast cancer of the oesophagus,kidney,gall bladder and pancreas.IT also increases risk of various types of leukaemias and lymphomas
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