18 ways to tackle obesity as new study finds link to 32 cancer types

The Swedish study revealed that obesity may account for 32 types and 90 subtypes of cancer (Image: Getty) A Swedish study has revealed that obesity may now be the leading cause of cancer, surpassing smoking in its link to the deadly disease. The groundbreaking research suggests that obesity is connected to an alarming 32 types of cancer, potentially accounting for a staggering 760,000 cases in the US and 150,000 in the UK annually, as reported by What Doctors Don't Tell You magazine. In a startling revelation, the study indicates that obese people could be twice as likely to develop cancer compared to smokers, despite the fact that smoking is still responsible for around 20 percent of all cancers and approximately 80 percent of lung cancers.

Lead researcher Ming Sun commented on the gravity of the findings: "Our findings suggest that the impact of obesity on cancer might be greater than previously known, in that it is a risk factor for more cancers , especially of rarer kind." function loadOvpScript(){let el=document.createElement('script');el.

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