Research linking obesity to eight new cancers – VG

Absence of subcutaneous fat reduces the risk of several common cancers in Norway.

– This reinforces the benefits of maintaining a healthy body weight fora reduce the risk of several types of cancer, said lead author of the paper, Dr Béatrice Lauby-Ecretan.

She and 20 other international experts have gone through more than a thousand scientific studies and can now add additional eight cancer types in various organs of obesity: cancer stomach, liver, gallbladder, pancreas, ovaries, thyroid, meninges and bone marrow.

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Researcher: – More and more links between cancer and obesity

Elisabeth Weider Pass at the cancer Registry is among the experts who participated in the research. She says that the link between obesity and cancer only become clearer.

– The more we research on overweight and obesity, the more cancers we find that relate to it, she says.

Weider Make believe it is important in childhood avoid putting on weight.

– There is a point to start as early as possible. Are you already overweight, you should work to avoid coming into obesity. Man comes quickly into an upward weight spiral, it’s very easy for most people to put on weight a little each year, she says.

She notes that the Norwegians average put on half a kilo a year.

– We do not say this to scare people, but it is simply important to avoid putting on too much, she says.

Message to obese: It’s just starting to run

110 million children and adolescents are overweight

Researchers have also confirmed previous findings, showing that a healthy body weight reduces the risk of colorectal cancer, kidney cancer, esophagus cancer, certain types of cancer of the uterus and breast cancer for women who have undergone menopause.

the study is based on body mass index – BMI. The index measures the relationship between body weight and height. If you have a BMI of 25, considered one by definition as overweight, while a BMI of over 30 is the definition of obesity.

Globally runs around 640 million adults subcategory obesity, and 110 million children and adolescents. There are several people who go in groups obesity or overweight than underweight worldwide. There is reason to believe that the number of people who die as a result of being overweight or obese will increase by this study.

The study is published in the respected journal The New England Journal of Medicine.