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The more cells you have the more likely one will go wrong. So why don't fat people get more cancers?

There most definetly is a relationship between the likelihood of getting cancer and how fat one is! A recent study over a 16 year period, involving over 900,000 participants, has concluded that there is a definite higher risk of getting cancer if you are overweight. Specifically this was related to your Body Mass Index (BMI) whereby if your BMI is greater than 25, then you fall into that higher risk group.

The particular the study referred to here was conducted by the American Cancer Council and may be viewed in mor detail on the following link.

Also, the following are interesting figures, from statistical information gathered over the years, that there is a genuine relationship between being overweight and cancer .

Three percent of cancer deaths in Australia are attributable to BMI>25 3 . More recent figures in Europe attribute 5% of cancers to being overweight 4 . A large cohort study in the USA estimated that 14% of all deaths from cancer in men and 20% of those in women could be attributed to overweight and obesity .

This is so much the case that there is a campaign being run in Australia, at the moment to warn about the dangers of being overweight and getting cancer.