A new British study published by the British Medical Association, obesity associated with the incidence of some cancers in women, especially after menopause. The study, the authors examined 45,000 cases of cancer in just over a million women in the space of seven years, 6,000 of them linked to overweight. Obesity, especially after menopause arrival, substantially increases the risk of ten of the seventeen most common cancers. The study attributes the excess fat to 51 percent of uterine cancers and 48 percent of adenocarcinomas the esophagus, which means that these diseases could be prevented by improving diet and exercising more. Other cancers are less related to obesity, and so only about 10 or 20 percent of cases of multiple myeloma, renal cancer, leukemia or pancreatic cancer examined can be attributed to excess weight. According to the authors of the study, obesity accounts for about 6,000 of the 120,000 new cancer cases that occur annually among women over fifty years. And around two-thirds of these 6,000 cases are cancers of the uterus or breast. The scientists concluded that excess fat increases the risk of breast cancer and bowel cancer only after menopause. The Cancer Research UK recommends eating to lose weight every day at approximately the same time and do it without haste, reduce fat intake and increasing fruits and vegetables, walk an hour and a half daily and stand at least ten minutes every hour.

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