can obesity cause cancer
(World Cancer Research Fund/American Institute for Cancer Research (2007) Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and the Prevention of Cancer: a Global Perspective. AICR: Washington, DC). AICR/WCRF was the first organization to note that, after smoking, obesity is the most important preventable cause of cancer. While obesity is clearly linked to risk for developing many forms of cancer, the deleterious impact of obesity on prognosis has proven even more compelling in several studies.