Extra Weight Increases Cancer Risk by Cecelia Poole RN, BSN

Colon Cancer is one of the most common types of cancer, but it is also one of the most preventable. Among the many ways that men and women can lower their risk of this disease is to maintain a healthy weight. Data shows that obese people are 50 percent more likely than lean adults to develop non-cancerous growths in the colon that have the potential become cancerous.

So instead of opting for maybe a possible malignancy with those extra helpings, help yourself to a mindfulness of determining whether or not really are hungry, and congratulate yourself for making a healthy choice.

(Some excerpts printed with permission from The Nurses Health Study Annual Newsletter /November 2003, vol. 10)

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BIO:

Cecelia Poole is a registered nurse with years of experience in private practices, clinics, rural, and academic hospitals. She is a member of Sigma Theta Tau the International Honor Society of Nurses.

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