Published on October 1, 2024
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“You have breast cancer.”
Those 4 words can make a woman buckle at the knees.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a good time to address the relationship between obesity and breast cancer — and make no mistake: There is a relationship. The sex hormones estrogen and progesterone are known to increase risk of breast cancer.
Toxic visceral fat is plentiful in an obese woman’s body, and it produces estrogen — and that ain’t good!
📌The more body fat a female has, the more estrogen she produces. Estrogen fuels tumor growth (cancer cells love estrogen).
📌The more a woman feeds her fat cells, the more she feeds any cancer cells, the more aggressive the cancer.
📌High levels of post-menopausal estrogen can stimulate abnormal breast cell growth, which leads to more rapid development of estrogen-positive breast cancers.
Women do not have to die of breast cancer. The key is prevention and early detection. And when it comes to detection, the slimmer we are, the sooner we’ll feel a change in our breasts on our own and get to the doctor; the clearer the mammography and ultrasound results; and the sooner we can begin the process of whatever comes next.
