Obesity seems to be the medical concern of the day. One New York Times article references a study to be published in today s Journal of the American Medical Association that determined that adults who were overweight as teens were twice as likely as similar adults who had never been overweight to develop pancreatic cancer later in life, and people who were obese as young adults were at more than twice the risk of adults who had never been obese.
Obesity seems to be the medical concern of the day. One New York Times article references a study to be published in today s Journal of the American Medical Association that determined that adults who were overweight as teens were twice as likely as similar adults who had never been overweight to develop pancreatic cancer later in life, and people who were obese as young adults were at more than twice the risk of adults who had never been obese.
We ve known for some time that obesity is a risk factor for pancreatic cancer, says ACSH's Dr. Elizabeth Whelan. This study says that, even in adolescence, obesity puts you on the fast track for pancreatic cancer. That is really frightening, considering the increasing numbers of obese children.
