The big fat link between obesity and breast cancer

By Healthshare
Updated August 22 2018 - 10:33am, first published August 21 2018 - 8:00am
While many of us now know that obesity increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease, we are less aware that obesity increases the risk of 12 cancers, according to the World Cancer Research Fund.
While many of us now know that obesity increases the risk of diabetes and heart disease, we are less aware that obesity increases the risk of 12 cancers, according to the World Cancer Research Fund.

For the first time in history, there are now more people with obesity in the world than underweight people. The tidal wave of obesity shows no signs of slowing down – a 2016 global analysis in The Lancet found that worldwide, the number of obese people has risen from 105 million in 1975 to 641 million in 2014.

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