Being overweight can cause cancer diseases

Increased Insulin Levels - Why Overweight Promotes Cancer
Overweight damages your health. Those who weigh too much not only have an increased risk for diabetes, but also for various cancers. This could - as with diabetes - a disturbed insulin budget be the cause.

Risk factor for civilization diseases
Those who put too much on the scales endanger their health. Obesity is a risk factor for lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and other cardiovascular diseases. In addition, it increases the risk of numerous cancers. Reducing its weight is therefore one of the most important measures to reduce your personal cancer risk.

Obesity not only increases the risk of diabetes, but also for many cancers. Cause for this could also be a disturbed insulin budget. (Image: SENTELLO / fotolia.com)

Obesity increases the risk of cancer
Researchers at the International Agency for Research on Cancer recently reported in the journal "British Medical Journal" on a study that showed that being overweight increases the risk of eleven cancerous diseases.

The German Association of Internal Medicine (DGIM) now points out in a news agency dpa that people who carry too much weight carry a higher risk of colorectal cancer, breast cancer, esophageal cancer, cancer of the kidney, pancreas or To get uterus.

Increased insulin levels favor tumor growth
Doctors assume that the often permanently increased insulin levels in obese people promotes tumor growth.

Therefore, patients with obesity usually also have worse chances of surviving a cancer than normal weight sufferers.

Apparently, the fat cells themselves contribute to a larger inflammatory process in the body. By weight reduction, however, this process can be reversed again. According to DGIM, the risk of getting cancer decreases, then again.

Reduce health risks through weight loss
Healthy weight loss brings even more benefits.

Experts say that even a five to ten percent weight reduction has a clear positive impact. This improves the metabolism, as well as the insulin sensitivity of the organs and also the blood sugar value decreases. (Ad)