Obesity causes half a million cancer deaths annually – mainly in developed countries

Obesity Now Causes Half a Million Cancers a Year, Worldwide Mercola

• N early two-thirds of obesity-related cancers—which include colon, rectum, ovary, and womb cancers—occur in North America and Europe

• women are twice as likely to develop obesity-related cancer

  • examples: postmenopausal breast, endometrial, and colon cancer.

• Obesity was associated with 5.4 % of all new cancers in women (globally) in 2012

  • 8 % in developed nations
  • 1.5 % in developing countries

  Story posits that obesity might be due to

• Overuse of antibiotics in food production and medicine

• Growth-enhancing drugs used in food animals

• Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including pesticides

• Artificial sweeteners

• Aggressive stealth marketing of harmful junk food

• Excessive sugar/and processed fructose,

See also VitaminDWiki

• All items in category Obesity and Vitamin D items

• Obese have 50 percent less of two enzymes in fatty tissue to process vitamin D – May 2013

• Genes indicate that Obesity causes vitamin D deficiency – Feb 2013

• 1.8X increased risk of Obesity if antibiotics were used during pregnancy – Nov 2014

• Those low on vitamin D were 2.4X more likely to gain weight – June 2013

• Antibiotics and Vitamin D are associated with many of the same diseases

• Overview Obesity and Vitamin D contains the following summary

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Whatever the cause, vitamin D has been shown to both prevent and treat obesity in somewhat less than half of women.