New Study Links Obesity with Increased Cancer Risk

Do you find yourself trying to lose weight, but unable to stave off the last few pounds or so? Here’s something that might just motivate you to start taking your workouts more seriously: a new study concludes that the higher your body-mass index (BMI) is, the greater the cancer risk.

The special report entitled Body Fatness and Cancer was published in the New England Journal of Medicine. It is based on over 1,000 studies that were analyzed by the France-based International Agency for Cancer on Research (IARC), an arm of the World …read more