Obesity- A Cancer-Enhancing Risk Factor

Being obese makes a roadway towards various illness and diseases. One of the fatal diseases is cancer. Obesity promotes many health risks including cancer. Being fat raises chances of cancer death later in life.

A study published in The New England Journal Of Medicine revealed that losing weight can prevent more than 90,000 deaths from cancer.

What is Obesity?:

An abnormal presentation of the body in which a person faces unhealthy and high proportion of body fat/mass.

To measure obesity, a scale is commonly used by the researchers called Body Mass Index (BMI). It is calculated by dividing a …read more