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Saturday, April 26, 2003Obesity plays a much bigger role in causing cancer than researchers had previously believed, accounting for 14 per cent of cancers in men and 20 per cent in women, according to a massive new study by the American Cancer Society. An estimated 90,000 Americans die each year of cancer caused primarily by obesity and excess weight, according to the study, published on Thursday in the New England Journal of Medicine. That makes weighing too much second only to smoking - which causes about 170,000 cancer deaths a year - as a preventable cause of cancer. The study didn't say that being fat causes cancer. It said that fat people who have cancer die at higher rates than skinny people who have cancer. (Scroll down to Thursday’s post, which has been updated, for more on that.) For all we know, fat people get less cancer than skinny people. Ergo, you can’t say that being fat causes cancer. posted by Sydney on 4/26/2003 08:01:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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