Obesity cancers predicted to rise
Obese youngsters are at a substantially higher risk of developing cancer in later life due to their eating habits, an expert has claimed.
Professor Kathy Pritchard-Jones - president of the European Society for Paediatric Oncology - has warned that there could be a huge surge in weight-related cancers in the coming years.
Speaking on the subject to mark World Cancer Day, she said that children with a poor diet and lifestyle were setting themselves up for major health problems in later life.
"If we don’t do something about tackling how much exercise our young people take and how concerned they are about what they eat and their weight, we are going to have another explosion of cancers, to which unhealthy lifestyles will be a significant, contributory factor," she explained.
Meanwhile, it was recently claimed by researchers in Italy that patients who have undergone obesity surgery could benefit from a six month course of growth hormone treatment.
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