Obesity causes cancer, especially in the young, according to experts on child health, featured today in various media outlets and the BBC. The experts are saying that by 2012, 1 million children in England will be obese-more will be overweight and that means over 1 million will be at risk from cancer.
As we all know, the war against smoking has been won and health officials are now seeing the positive benefits of this in terms of less heart disease and hopefully lower rates of cancer caused by cigarettes.
All this would mean less strain on the health service but it all looks like it's going to come unstuck if governments around the world don't sort out the obesity problems. The benefits gained and the advances made are all likely to be wiped out by the negative effects of obesity.
One of the Uk's top professors used World Cancer Day to speak out about parental complacency over child obesity but it seems the message is not getting through.
Many people don't understand the link between excess weight and cancer but it seems that abdomininal fat causes hormonal changes which can trigger breast and prostate cancer. Fat can also wipe out the good chemicals in the body which help fight cancer.
And it all comes down to diet, especially in childhood. If you feed your kids high fat, energy dense, salty processed food and allow them high calorie fizzy drinks with no fresh fruit and veg, you are likely to be shortening their life. Good habits are formed in childhood and last a lifetime, bad eating and activity habits will also last a lifetime-a signifcantly shorter lifetime.
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