Losing Body Fat Can Reduce Your Risk For Cancer

This post gives you one more reason to lose body fat. I found this while browsing some of my favorite sites and decided this was worth reblogging.

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In the following post, you’ll learn that overweight people in general, are at greater risk for Cancer, and from reading about the studies being done, It seems like the fat cells in your body that are storing animal fat will contain proteins that promote cancer cells to grow.

In the U.S., we consume too much animal fat from meat and dairy products. This overconsumption promotes more fat storage. All meat and dairy will contain some animal fat and that’s why we are constantly having this conversation about eating animal meat. Science hasn’t come out and said this is the cause of cancer, but they always end their studies by saying that more studies need to be done.

(HealthDay News) — Overweight and obese women who lose weight may lower their odds of developing cancer as their levels of cancer-linked proteins drop, a new study suggests.

These proteins — VEGF, PAI-1, and PEDF — promote the growth of blood vessels, a process that is necessary to help tumors thrive. The more weight the women lost, the greater the drop in the levels of these proteins, the researchers found.

Proteins are one of the big causes of Cancer. There are several different types of protein and not all of these proteins are good for our health. Plants also contain protein, so we don’t have to rely on meat for all our protein. Another great source of protein is seafood. Poultry is also a good source of protein but the white meat is very dense and the yellow fat is on the outside of the meat, under the skin, and should be trimmed off.

“It’s another piece of evidence in the jigsaw puzzle of the benefits of losing weight, and how important weight loss is to prevent cancer,” said lead researcher Catherine Duggan. In general, losing weight reduces the risk of breast,

In general, losing weight reduces the risk of breast, colon, and prostate cancer by as much as 20 percent, she said. This might be due to a reduction in inflammatory factors stored in fat as well as a drop in levels of these for mentioned proteins, Duggan suggested.

These proteins increase with weight, she explained. “As people gain weight, new blood vessels are required to bring oxygen and nutrients to the stored fat,” she said. The same process happens in men.

“We can’t say these factors cause cancer, but we do think that these factors may make tumors grow. So if you reduce them, these dormant cancer tumors might not make the switch and start to grow, but we can’t say for sure,” she said.

But, “we know being obese or overweight increases cancer risk, so anything to avoid that, such as weight loss, should be a good thing in reducing cancer risk,” Stevens said.

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