British scientists study find obesity can cause more than 20 types of cancer

British doctors have examined the records of nearly 300,000 cancer patients and found
thatoverweight can trigger more than 20 different types of cancer20The findings were published in the recent lysis of Scientific AmericanMeanwhile
at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Boston,, Walter Weilett, director of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard University's School of Public Health, predicted that obesity would soon replace smoking as the number one killer of cancer in developed countriesHe points out that according to some ongoing animal studies and numerous human studies, there is a link between obesity and cancer, with more than 20cancer patientslinked to obesity, which is fast approaching the 30 percent cancer-related figure for smokers, which will soon be upended as obesity becomes less severe in the United StatesIn recent years, there has been a popular perception that weight gain, especially for older people, is beneficialhealthThe study corrects this erroneous viewStudies do show that people over 75 reduce the risk of death as they gain weightBut the reasons for this conclusion are not yet clear, and it may be a set of fictitious statisticsIn addition, in 2
006, the University of Southern California published a study in the American Journal of Epidemiology that showed that a person's slightly overweight weight at age 80 reduced mortality However, in the same study, it was also found that people who were obese at the age of 2
1 had the highest rate of mortality Experts say these studies remind the public that is the guarantee of health longevity only if they remain weight at a young age (
Ma Aiping)