Althouse: "In recent years, a growing number of medical and public health groups have introduced public awareness campaigns warning people to drink with caution, noting that alcohol is the third leading preventable cause of cancer, behind tobacco and obesity.""There's not too much talk about alcohol causing cancer, but there's even less talk about obesity causing cancer.
In fact, I don't believe I'd ever heard that
obesity can cause cancer, and yet, apparently, it's the second leading preventable cause of cancer....
Here's what the CDC has to say. It lists "13 Cancers... associated with overweight and obesity"
- Meningioma (cancer in the tissue covering brain and spinal cord)
- Adenocarcinoma of the esophagus
- Multiple myeloma (cancer of blood cells)
- Kidneys
- Uterus
- Ovaries
- Thyroid
- Breast (post-menopausal women)
- Liver
- Gallbladder
- Upper stomach
- Pancreas
- Colon and rectum
This is a huge deal, but we don't hear about it —
presumably because it's strongly believed that telling people to lose weight only makes it worse..."
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