{"id":4061,"date":"2007-11-01T22:37:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-01T22:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4061"},"modified":"2025-09-30T01:47:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T01:47:26","slug":"new-study-srton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/?p=4061","title":{"rendered":"New study strongly links fat, and cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many <strong>USA Today<\/strong> articles, this one is pretty comprehensive, including sidebars<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/health\/2007-10-31-cancer_N.htm?imw=Y\">Put down the bacon! Report emphasizes cancer-fat links &#8211; USATODAY.com<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\">\n<div class=\"inside-copy\">\n<div class=\"inside-copy\">There is more evidence than ever that a person who weighs too much is more likely to develop cancer, a landmark report said Wednesday.<\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">And forget eating bacon, sausage and lunchmeat. No amount is considered completely safe, according to the analysis from the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">An international panel of experts reviewed more than 7,000 large-scale studies and spent five years developing the report (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dietandcancerreport.org\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #00529b;\">www.dietandcancerreport.org<\/span><\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">Excess body fat increases the risk of cancer of the colon, kidney, pancreas, esophagus and uterus as well as postmenopausal breast cancer, the report says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">\n<div class=\"inside-copy\"><strong>READ THE REPORT: <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dietandcancerreport.org\/\"><span style=\"color: #00529b;\">No amount of processed meat considered completely safe<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p class=\"inside-copy\">&quot;This was a much larger impact than even the researchers expected,&quot; says Karen Collins, a cancer institute nutrition adviser. &quot;People forget body fat is not an inert glob that we are carrying around on the waistline and thighs. It&#8217;s a metabolically active tissue that produces substances in the body that promote the development of cancer.&quot;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike many USA Today articles, this one is pretty comprehensive, including sidebars Put down the bacon! Report emphasizes cancer-fat links &#8211; USATODAY.com There is more evidence than ever that a person who weighs too much is more likely to develop cancer, a landmark report said Wednesday. And forget eating bacon, sausage and lunchmeat. No amount [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-my-lymphoma-and-related-medical-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4061"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9380,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4061\/revisions\/9380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomfarandasfolly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}