Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Pancreatic Cancer & Obesity

Obesity, as everyone knows, if not healthy.  What many people don’t know about obesity, however, is that it can actually increase your chance of getting certain types of cancer – namely pancreatic cancer.   
Research has shown that those who are overweight as teens or as young adults are at least twice as likely to develop pancreatic cancer as are people who have never been obese.