Obesity increases the risk of half a dozen cancers and the risk is even more, when one’s waistline thickens, according to a major review published in the Lancet.
Studies undertaken by the doctors at the University of Manchestor, Northwestern England among 282,000 people who gaine weight.According to their study taking the body mass index (BMI) as their benchmark,a person with a BMI 25 to 29.9 are considered as overweight and those with a weight of 30 or above as BMI as obese, it was found out as follows:
According to the investigation among the obese people every gain of 5 points in BMI, raised the risk of gullet cancer by 52 percent,of thyroid cancer by 33 percent and of colon and kidney cancers by 24 percent.
Among women , a BMI increase of five points,increased the risk of uterus cancer by 59 percent,of the gallbladder by 59 percent and of the gullet by 51 percent and of the kidney 9 percent.
Small but still insignificant increase in BMI increase the risk of cancer of the colon, rectum,of the skin among men and of the breast,pancreas, thyroid and colon among women.
In both sexes, there is an increased risk of lueukaemia,non-hidgkin lymphoma and multiple myloma.Localisedf accumulation of fat cells could also contribute significantly to specific tumours, such as cancers of liver and throat.
Therefore please avoid becoming obese and have a healthy life, free from any type of cancer
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