A new study finds that obesity is fast rising as a major cause of many types of cancer.
The report, “Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective” is an “eye-opener,” Early Show medical correspondent Dr. Emily Senay said as it was released Wednesday.
It shows that the connections between lifestyle choices and cancer risk are clearer than ever, she said.
The 500-page document, which took five years to compile, analyzed more than 7,000 clinical trials and was put together by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund, and includes contributions from scientists at Harvard, the National Cancer Institute, and many other institutions worldwide.
Authors call the report “the most comprehensive ever published on the evidence linking cancer risk to diet, physical activity and weight.”
“It’s all about prevention,” Senay said. ” … It’s an eye-opener report” that shows the evidence “is clearer than ever. Even small amounts of excess body fat, especially around the middle, can make cancer more likely.”
Report co-author and London-based researcher Dr. W. Philip James told CBS News, “This is the first report that clearly shows that the fatter we are, the greater the risk of cancer. It’s remarkable how clear that link is.”
James says that, as obesity rates soar, the list of cancers associated with those extra pounds is growing: “Breast cancer, particularly post-menopausal breast cancer, cancer of the large bowel, and cancer of the pancreas, those are the three big ones.”
Another co-author, Dr. Walter Willett of Harvard, told CBS News obesity is now “approaching smoking as a cancer risk,” and Senay says it could surpass smoking one day.
Obesity could “surpass smoking one day” as the leading cause of cancer?
If you listen closely, you can almost hear the wheels churning in Washington as they rub their greedy little hands together to figure out how to protect ‘the people’ from this latest public health warning. Of course, they will have to put the usual lipstick on the pig by promoting any new ’sin tax’ as in the best interest of the people because they care so much about our well-being.
You know, it’s funny how they care so much about us that they will heavily tax our cigarettes, alcohol, gambling, and any other vice to keep us ’safe’ from ourselves while they leave our borders wide open to invasion, our food and toy supplies virtually uninspected, our Social Security retirement unprotected, and on and on.
But their nanny state mentality leads them to believe that their job is to protect us from ourselves when the real question is; who will protect us (and our wallets) from them?
