Obesity and Cancer Risk

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Over a decade ago, an international team of researchers reported that being overweight or obese was linked to higher risks of 5 cancers:

✅ colon

✅ esophagus

✅ kidney

✅ breast

✅ uterus

Then, in August of 2016 that same group of researchers, in the New England Journal of Medicine, expanded that list significantly by identifying 8 additional cancers linked to excess weight and obesity:

✅ stomach

✅ liver

✅ gall bladder

✅ pancreas

✅ ovary

✅ thyroid

✅ meningioma (a type of brain tumor)

✅ multiple myeloma (a type of blood cancer)

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, these cancers make up 40% of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. each year.

Being obese is like having a factory in your body polluting you with cancer-causing chemicals every day.

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P.S. Are wondering which cancer has the most relationship with obesity? Breast cancer after menopause is the most common obesity-associated cancer among women. Colorectal cancer is the most common obesity-associated cancer among men.