Your diet, Obesity and the risk of Cancer
 | Cheryl, lead dietitian at EatatEase has been reading about a recent study that monitored for seven years more than one million British women and charted the effects of Obesity and cancer. |
We are all too familiar with the risks of smoking and alcohol on developing cancer, but what we tend to forget about is the link between Obesity and cancer. With the levels of obesity rising it is something that we all should be made more aware of.
Being overweight or obese accounts for one in 20 cancers – or 6,000 of the 120,000 cases diagnosed each year (Cancer research UK).
A Study carried out by the world cancer research fund based on data collected for the Million Women study monitored for seven years more than one million British women aged 50 to 64, during this time 45,000 of them were diagnosed with cancer and 17,000 died from the disease.
Being overweight has a much bigger impact on the risk of some cancers than others. Two-thirds of the additional 6,000 cancers each year due to being overweight or obese would be cancers of the womb or breast
Being overweight is a preventable risk factor, one that we can do something about.
Keeping a healthy weight by eating a low-fat, high-fibre diet with plenty of fruit and vegetables and taking regular exercise is a good way to combat cancer risk.
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