Obesity Contributes to Some Cancers
September 24, 2009 by Marijke Durning, RN
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
Cancer is a tricky disease. We know some causes of some cancers and some risk factors for some cancers, but we don’t know enough to cure most of them. What we can do, however, is take what we know and try to reduce the risks we do know of.
It’s not surprising to anyone in the healthcare field to know that unhealthy lifestyle choices, like smoking, drinking too much, not eating well, not exercising enough, and so on, contributes to ill health. Obesity is also something that contributes to disease, and now it’s being found that it could also be contributing …read more




