Friday, May 29, 2015

Obesity 'causes one in five cancer deaths'

Heavier people are more at risk, warns cancer expert at Chicago conference

Tackling obesity is a major priority, the UK government has said, as a report warns that it is the cause of one in five cancer deaths.

At the world’s biggest conference on cancer, it was claimed that obesity was killing tens of thousands of people a year in Britain and it is about to replace tobacco as the leading preventable cause of cancer in the west, according to a report in the Times.

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