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Obesity Raises Cancer Risk
Your risk of cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, stroke, and diabetes, all increase if you’re overweight or obese.
All these risks are worsened by the global obesity epidemic. In 2005, the World Health Organization estimated that 9.8% of adults are obese. That’s 400 million people.
And while heart disease and type-2 diabetes are strongly linked to obesity, another risk is not widely recognized, cancer.
Published in the journal Lance Oncology, a new study found Asians who are overweight or obese are at greater risk of dying from cancer compared to people with normal weight; obesity was associated with a 21% heightened risk and 6% for being overweight.
Particular forms of cancer linked to obesity included colon, rectum, breast, ovary, cervix, prostate, and leukemia.
Researchers followed more than 400,000 Asians from places like Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Thailand, Australia, and New Zealand for four years. Historically people native to Asian countries have been thinner, but with the growth of the Western diet and lifestyle, obesity rates among Asians have skyrocketed, particularly in China.
New reports say between 1985 and 2000 the rate of childhood obesity in China has increased 30-fold; raising concern that government should take a more active role in the prevention of obesity.
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