Article: Calories, exercise & cancer

Reuven Bruner
Jerusalem Post
03-16-2001
Headline: Calories, exercise & cancer
Byline: Reuven Bruner
Edition; In Jerusalem
Section: News
Page: 07

Friday, March 16, 2001 -- Fending off disease with a healthy diet is a concept almost everyone accepts. What they don't know is that maintaining a balance between the calories you take in and the calories you burn is also an important part of that defensive strategy. Researchers believe a caloric imbalance increases your risk of developing cancer.

Scientists began to explore this connection when research showed that people whose caloric imbalance is 20- 30% above average are at increased risk for cancer.

The risk may be due to more than just too ...

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