lthough it’s been thought for some time that carrying around extra
weight increases a person’s chance of developing chronic diseases and
cancer, the actual details and percentage points have never actually
been studied in such detail before. This study was published in The
Lancet and it studied the personal records of more than 5 million people
in England.
Unfortunately, excess pounds are hard to come by but hard to get rid
of! Once you start eating sugar and junk food every day, your cravings
for those foods grows stronger and stronger. Eventually, this will lead
to excess weight, health problems, and, eventually, cancer.
your BMI increases, so will your risk for cancer. Cancer, like all
living things, needs something to feed on in order to grow and take a
guess what its favorite food is? That’s right, sugar. The same sugar
that causes those excess pounds, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
Although this study was done in the UK, it’s simply an example of the
things that are happening around the world, anywhere where a typical
Western style diet is adopted.
This study shows that there is a great deal of variation in the
effects of a person’s BMI on different cancers. In fact, this study
suggests that more than 40 percent of uterine cancer cases are due to
obesity.
The top 10 common cancers that are related to being overweight are:
1. Gallbladder cancer
2. Ovarian cancer
3. Uterine cancer
4. Kidney cancer
5. Liver cancer
6. Colon cancer
7. Prostate cancer
8. Breast cancer
9. Thyroid cancer
10. Leukemia
Exactly how our fat impacts our cancer risk is not understood, but it
obviously does so depending on the cancer type. It’s a complex
relationship but there is one thing that is clear from this study,
keeping excess weight increases our risk of developing cancer.
The good news is that this is all very preventable and unnecessary.
Hopefully, Americans are going to pay attention to this study and wake
up to the facts. It’s not hard to suppress your appetite with organic
fruits and vegetables but most people aren’t willing to give it a try.
Your body has natural, built in sensors that will tell you when you are
full but it does react differently to different foods. Eating a
vegetarian based diet means that you might have to eat more often, but
it’s a healthy diet so it’s not a problem. Yes, switching to a healthy,
organic, vegetarian based diet will mean you have to fight those
cravings for a few days, but not much longer than that. Then you are
free from sugar and all its dangers.
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