Although science has had a difficult time defining
the exact
relationship that obesity and cancer share, many studies have made it
evident that as obesity increases, cancer risk follows. A study
published in the New England Journal of Medicine found that some 90,000
cancer deaths were linked to obesity. There are several other studies
to support these findings.
Yet, is it
really enough to know that obesity and cancer are
related?
Common sense would tell us that if you are
overweight you run a greater
risk of developing not only cancer, but other
health related conditions. Has this so called "common sense" done
anything to help us lose weight? You be the judge...We are more obese
as a nation today then ever before!
Contributing to this is the fact that these days it
seems you have a cancer risk
whether you are overweight or not. Let's face it, it would appear that
losing weight alone would not guarantee a cancer free life.
Perhaps this is why we have been so reluctant to get in
shape?
What if there was a little more incentive?
Are you overweight?
Then it may motivate you to know that losing weight
will greatly limit
your risk of cancer...If
the
weight is lost the right way. The fact is that obesity and
cancer are linked, but not so much in the sense that obesity
causes cancer, as many experts would have you believe.
They are linked by a common cause and that cause is
summed up in the
word diet. (See natural weight loss)
That's right, address the cause and you will
decrease both obesity and
cancer risk substantially.
