Canada Health Podcast - Episode-1: Obesity and Cancer
Channel: Canada Health Podcast
Date: 2017-08-27

Transcript of Episode-1: Obesity and Cancer
By: Dr. Ehab Mohammed
Hi everyone, today I am going to talk about an important topic, obesity and cancer. Almost 50% of people in Canada suffer from obesity at one point of their lifetime. Research revealed a relationship between overweight and cancer. According to the UK cancer research institute, there are six types of cancer that are closely related to obesity which are in this order of frequency: Bowel, breast, uterine, kidney, esophageal, and pancreatic cancers. The question now, how obesity can cause cancer? The answer to this question is that there are many reasons for this such as: fat cells produce the hormone estrogen which can cause cancer, also fats produce many chemicals called cytokines which can cause cancer. It worth mention that central obesity which means having obesity mainly in the waistline is considered a higher risk than other types of obesity in causing cancer. If you have any questions related to this topic please send your queries in the contact link in my website.