{"id":1403,"date":"2014-09-07T12:22:59","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T12:22:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/health\/morehealth\/overweight-increases-cancer-risk-2.html"},"modified":"2014-09-07T12:22:59","modified_gmt":"2014-09-07T12:22:59","slug":"overweight-increases-cancer-risk-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/?p=1403","title":{"rendered":"Overweight Increases Cancer Risk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A study in the UK that followed 5.24 million people for 7.5 years identified more than 166,000 who developed at least one of 22 cancers. Each 5-point elevation of BMI above normal (equal to about 30 pounds for a person 5&#8217;6&#8243; tall) was associated with significantly higher risk for cancers of the uterus, gallbladder, kidney, liver, colon, cervix, thyroid, ovary, postmenopausal breast, pancreas, rectum, esophagus or stomach, and leukemia (<em>The Lancet<\/em>, August 30, 2014;384(9945):755-765).<\/p>\n<p>An editorial in the same issue advocates reducing caloric intake and increasing physical activity. Its authors recommended government actions including taxing calorie-dense, nutritionally sparse foods (particularly sugar-sweetened drinks); subsidizing healthier foods; changing agricultural policies; and urban planning to encourage walking and other modes of physical activity (<em>The Lancet<\/em>, August 30, 2014;384(9945):727 &#8211; 728).<\/p>\n<p>In this study, a BMI of 25 or more was considered overweight. You can calculate your BMI using pounds and inches with the formula: BMI = (weight in pounds) x 703\/[(height in inches) x (height in inches), or use one of the many online BMI calculators.<\/p>\n<p>The incidence of obesity has increased markedly over the last 25 years and is linked to the rising availability of cheap, calorie-dense and nutritionally poor food and drink (<em>British Medical Journal<\/em> 2012;345:e5124). Being even a little bit overweight increases your chances of dying prematurely from cancer, heart attacks, diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, high blood fats, osteoarthritis and many other diseases. See my report on <a href=\"https:\/\/drmirkin.com\/nutrition\/weight-loss-with-intermittent-fasting.html\" title=\"intermittent fasting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Intermittent Fasting for weight loss and weight control<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Checked 9\/12\/15<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A study in the UK that followed 5.24 million people for 7.5 years identified more than 166,000 who developed at least one of 22 cancers. Each 5-point elevation of BMI above normal (equal to about 30 pounds for a person 5&#8217;6&#8243; tall) was associated with significantly higher risk for cancers of the uterus, gallbladder, kidney, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morehealth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/drmirkin.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}