Healthy Weight Control

Overweight Tied to Certain Cancers
Too much body fat and too little exercise are linked with up to one-third of colon, breast, kidney, and digestive tract cancers, according to the World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer agency. With half of European adults and 61 percent of American adults being overweight, researchers fear cancer rates will climb.

The WHO and others believe that a drop in hormone levels produced by weight loss are part of the mechanism for risk reduction. They also note that weight loss, even late in life, appears to cut risks for breast and uterine cancers. Unfortunately, there is difficulty in tracking these trends as many people have difficulty maintaining their weight losses—one more reason to make exercise and a healthy, low-fat eating plan a priority early in life.

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