Weight Loss and Cancer

Excess Weight Linked to 90,000 US Cancer Deaths Annually
Most Types of Cancers Affected By Weight

I reading a horrifying report that I should like you to read if you feel like giving up on losing weight.
The American Cancer Society's findings make grim reading for those of us who struggle with our weight loss.


Being overweight or obese substantially increases the risk of dying from cancer, according to researchers from the American Cancer Society.

In a new study published in Thursday’s New England Journal of Medicine (Vol. 348, No. 17: 1625-1638) researchers Eugenia Calle, PhD, and colleagues determined that overweight and obesity may account for 20% of all cancer deaths in US women and 14% in US men. That means 90,000 cancer deaths could be prevented each year if Americans could only maintain a normal, healthy body weight.

“As a [nation], we have not really acknowledged the contribution of obesity to chronic disease in general and cancer in particular,” said Calle, director of analytic epidemiology at the American Cancer Society. “We are not taking it seriously enough to turn it around. We are not acting on it.”

The researchers followed more than 900,000 men and women for 16 years to determine the role of weight in cancer deaths.


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