Obesity Now Causes Half a Million Cancers a Year, Worldwide Mercola
- N early two-thirds of obesity-related cancers—which include colon, rectum, ovary, and womb cancers—occur in North America and Europe
- women are twice as likely to develop obesity-related cancer
examples: postmenopausal breast, endometrial, and colon cancer. - Obesity was associated with 5.4 % of all new cancers in women (globally) in 2012
8 % in developed nations
1.5 % in developing countries
Story posits that obesity might be due to
- Overuse of antibiotics in food production and medicine
- Growth-enhancing drugs used in food animals
- Endocrine-disrupting chemicals, including pesticides
- Artificial sweeteners
- Aggressive stealth marketing of harmful junk food
- Excessive sugar/and processed fructose,
See also Vitamin D Life
- All items in category Obesity and Vitamin D
351 items - Obese have 50 percent less of two enzymes in fatty tissue to process vitamin D – May 2013
- Genes indicate that Obesity causes vitamin D deficiency – Feb 2013
- 1.8X increased risk of Obesity if antibiotics were used during pregnancy – Nov 2014
- Those low on vitamin D were 2.4X more likely to gain weight – June 2013
- Antibiotics and Vitamin D are associated with many of the same diseases
- Overview Obesity and Vitamin D contains the following summary
- FACT: People who are obese have less vitamin D in their blood
- FACT: Obese need a higher dose of vitamin D to get to the same level of vit D
- FACT: When obese people lose weight the vitamin D level in their blood increases
- FACT: Adding Calcium, perhaps in the form of fortified milk, often reduces weight
- FACT: 153 trials for vitamin D intervention of obesity as of Sept 2020
- FACT: Less weight gain by senior women with > 30 ng of vitamin D
- FACT: Dieters lost additional 5 lbs if vitamin D supplementation got them above 32 ng - RCT
- FACT: Obese lost 3X more weight by adding $10 of Vitamin D
- FACT: Those with darker skins were more likely to be obese Sept 2014
- OBSERVATION: Many mammals had evolved to add fat and vitamin D in the autumn
- and lose both in the Spring - unfortunately humans have forgotten to lose the fat in the Spring
- SUGGESTION: Probably need more than 4,000 IU to lose weight if very low on vitamin D due to
risk factors such as overweight, age, dark skin, live far from equator,shut-in, etc.- Obesity category has
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