Overweight and obesity constitute a global pandemic with devastating consequences that
affect> 2 billion people. Obesity plays a central role in morbidity and mortality of diseases of …

The association of obesity with cancer, increasingly recognized in both lay and medical
communities and underscored by the ongoing obesity epidemic, has stimulated a large body …

Body mass index (BMI) and simple counts of weight are easy and available tools in the clinic
and in research. Recent studies have shown that cancer patients with a low normal BMI (or …

There is growing appreciation that the current obesity epidemic is associated with increases
in cancer incidence at a population level and may lead to poor cancer outcomes; concurrent …

Background Diet is an important risk factor for cancer that is amenable to intervention.
Estimating the cancer burden associated with diet informs evidence-based priorities for …

LONG VIEWED AS LARGELY A PER-sonal problem for patients and their physicians to
address, obesity is now garnering the attention of policymakers. From the World Health …

Obesity is increasingly being linked to the risk of developing and dying from cancer. In
recognition of the growing contribution of obesity to cancer risk and outcomes, ASCO made …

Across medical and scientific research, few areas are as relevant to health as food and
nutrition. Suboptimal diet is associated with more deaths and disability worldwide than any …

Background: It is unknown whether the risk for obesity-related cancers differs between
metabolically unhealthy and healthy overweight/obese adults. Methods: Data on body mass …

Because everyone must eat to live, food companies would seem to be proponents of public
health. To reverse the current epidemic of obesity, people need to eat less, but in a situation …