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Article: Obese People Have Higher Risk of Cancer Death, Study Says.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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- April 24, 2003
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By Raja Mishra, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Apr. 24--As weights soar, specialists predict a rise in fatalities
Obese people face considerably higher risks of death from cancer than those with healthy body weights, according to a study which estimated that 90,000 cancer deaths could be prevented annually if overweight Americans slimmed down.
With obesity on the rise in the United States and other industrialized nations, the study's conclusions indicate that death from many types of cancer will soon increase, in some cases quite dramatically. Obese men, for instance, are more than four times as likely to die from ...