TO YOUR GOOD HEALTH
Cancer — 13 Different Types Are Related to Being Overweight or Obese
Truth and consequences
It is possible to eat yourself into disease, even cancer. Not just one form of cancer, but MANY, 13 at last count.
Many know of the connection between obesity and diabetes, high blood pressure, and so-called “high cholesterol.” Also, you may be aware of links between obesity and heart disease, heart attacks, stroke, and many other conditions.
Much less known, but every bit as real and life-threatening is the connection between obesity and malignancy, the general medical term for cancer.
“Obesity” is not a term of shame or blame
Before I go on though, a little information about the term “obesity.” It sounds pejorative, blaming/shaming, as though doctors are pointing fingers and calling people names. “You’re obese,” or “You’re morbidly obese” we seem to be shouting.
But, these are NOT terms of blame or shame. Rather, they are simply medical definitions that doctors actually must use in their charts to describe certain characteristics of some patients.
