Your belly fat is at a risk of cancer

London, May 24: Along with the Body Mass Index (BMI), people with increased rabies have the greater chance of developing cancer, especially in older adults, especially in the elderly, researchers have warned. Smoking with overweight or obesity is the biggest preventable cause of cancer. The findings revealed that for every 11 cm increase in the waistline, the risk of obesity related cancers such as breast, bowel, womb, oesophageal (food pipe), pancreatic, kidney, liver, upper stomach (gastric cardia), gallbladder, ovarian, thyroid, etc., escalates by 13 per cent.

Adding nearly eight cm to the hips increases the risk of developing bowel cancer by 15 per cent. "Our findings show that both BMI and where body fat is carried on the body can be good indicators of obesity-related cancer risk. Specifically, fat carried around the waist may be important for certain cancers," said lead author Heinz Freisling and scientist at the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC-WHO) in France. Carrying excess body fat can change the levels of ***** hormones, such as oestrogen and testosterone, cause levels of insulin to rise, and thus lead to inflammation, all of which are factors that have been associated with increased cancer risk, the researchers explained.

BMI, published in the British Journal of Cancer, has three different measurements of the body was waist circumference, and waist to hip ratio -- all predicted similar obesity-related cancer risk in older adults. "We believe that studying more than just BMI is more important when dealing with cancer risk, in order to better reflect underlying biology in plays. And our research is more aware that the shape of the public increases their risk, "added freezing. The researchers combined data from around 43,000 participants who had been followed for an average of 12 years and more than 1,600 people were diagnosed with an obesity-related cancer.