Excess body weight responsible for nearly 4 percent of cancers worldwide

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-12/acs-ebw120718.php

Public Release: 12-Dec-2018
Prevalence has increased rapidly in most countries across all population groups
American Cancer Society

Policies, economic systems, and marketing practices that promote the consumption of energy-dense, nutrient-poor food, changing behavioral patterns that couple high total energy intake with insufficient physical activity, and human-built environments that amplify these factors are driving a worldwide rise in excess body weight, according to a new report. The report, appearing early online in CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, says excess body weight accounted for approximately 3.9% of all cancers worldwide in 2012, a figure that will undoubtedly rise in the coming decades given current trends.

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