Millennials Getting More Obesity-Related Cancers, Study Finds

This study shows the incidence of cancer associated with obesity has been rising dramatically in groups of individuals born in more recent decades,” said MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Dr. George Chang, who was not associated with the analysis. However, Chang warns against overgeneralizing on the basis of an epidemiological study. “The study was not set up to establish causation,” Chang said. “We know there are many factors that are associated with both obesity and cancer, such as lack of exercise and poor diet. How much each of those factors contribute to cancer is less clear.” Obesity is a global epidemic Globally, obesity has reached “epidemic proportions,” says the World Health Organization, which estimates that more than 1 billion adults are overweight, with at least 300 million of them considered clinically obese. Millennials are on their way to being one of the heaviest generations on record. Research in the UK shows at least seven in 10 people born between the early 1980s and mid-1990s will likely be overweight or obese by their mid-30s and 40s. Only five in 10 baby boomers were obese at that same age. In the United States, according to the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, more than 40% of Americans are obese, as are one in every six children ages 2 to 19. A study in the New England Journal of Medicine last year found almost 60% of the nation’s children and teens will be obese by the age of 35 if the ...
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