It is found to some types of cancer leads overweight

Researchers from London We analyzed the relationship between the propensity to obesity and oncology - experts are convinced that in this respect overweight dangerous than many believe. By According to experts, a strong weight gain is associated with a significant increase risk of ten kinds of malignant tumors.

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  The discovery of employees London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, said the medical journal The Lancet. The monitoring of medical records with data on physicians more than five million people experts found that among patients obesity annually registered more than 12 thousand cases of cancer.
 
  Experts recognize that this figure scares them. Their calculations showed that at this rate, by 2020 overweight each year will provoke more than 3,500 additional cases Cancer.
 

"Weight gain is only 5 points of body mass index (BMI), the there are 17, 5   kilograms associated with increased risk of developing uterine cancer 62% of bladder cancer - by 31%, and kidney cancer - 25% ", - the authors study.

Furthermore, 41% of uterine cancer and 10% of cancers of the bladder, kidneys, liver and colon namely obesity is a trigger for the development of cancer.
 
  Note also that excessive massiveness of the body leads to cardiovascular diseases in general shortens lifespan average of 10 years. (READ MORE)

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