Nearly half of all cancer cases are linked to obesity, new research has found.
The study of more than four million adults, who were tracked for decades, found excess weight could be fuelling more than 30 types of the disease.
Experts said the findings, which will be presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Venice, were “groundbreaking”, showing a timebomb ahead.
Health charities urged ministers to act on the “wake-up call,” with obesity already estimated to cost the country almost £100 billion a year, including £19 billion in NHS costs.
Could even be true. But we do still need to shoot the first person who claims that us all being thing will save the NHS money.
As explained so often, we all die, we all gain terminal care, the NHS is a lifetime health care organisation. The determinant of the lifetime cost is not, therefore, what we die of nor that terminal care – it’s how may years we’re cared for. Well, within certain bourndaries that is.
Obesity, tabs and booze all save the NHS money, not cost it.
Correlation != Causation
It’s the First Rule of Comedy, Spike.
Nailed it, Otto. Like dying WITH Covid to get us all scared, hoping that the hard of thinking understand it as died OF Covid…
Yeah, Otto and Grist. I agree.
Talking of causation: an Obesity Congress in Venice quietly sinking into the lagoon.
with obesity already estimated to cost the country almost £100 billion a year, including £19 billion in NHS costs.
Oh, fuck off with the gaslighting.
Fatties don’t cost “the country” anything by spending their own money at Greggs and dying in their 60’s, and it’s the NHS that’s perpetually imposing huge costs on the British public, not t’ other way around.
Probably more relevant to see if fatties suffer from worse health, which requires treatment, during their lifetimes.
These kinds of article always bring out the inner fascist in many DT readers. Despite the fact that the study only suggests that almost half of all cancers maybe related to obesity, many commenters demand that free health care be denied to the overweight and the obese and other such discriminatory ideas.
There is in fact a large body of research that indicates that those who are overweight have the lowest risk of all cause mortality.
Relative to normal weight, both obesity (all grades) and grades 2 and 3 obesity were associated with significantly higher all-cause mortality. Grade 1 obesity overall was not associated with higher mortality, and overweight was associated with significantly lower all-cause mortality.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855514/
The journalistic use of “linked to” is rather like the use of “set to”: it flags that the article is not worth reading.
And what’s “obesity”? 20stone? 15stone? 10stone? Daniel Lambert or Sylvester McCoy?
“the NHS is a lifetime health care organisation. ”
The NHS is a national healthcare rationing system. It doesn’t give a toss about your lifespan, they only want you to go away today. Get out of the surgery. Get referred, wait for a test or scan, get told it doesn’t concern them unless it gets worse.
There are some good people but the institution stinks.
Experts said the findings, which will be presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Venice, were “groundbreaking”, showing a timebomb ahead.
Rest easy everyone, there’s nothing to worry about as that timebomb isn’t ticking.
If obesity costs the NHS £19bn a year, then why aren’t they making a big push to get all the fatties onto Wegovy? Even if it costs them £18bn to buy enough doses, that should still be worthwhile. Unless the £19bn number is plucked out of their fat arses, which of course it is.
It’s bloody obvious that if you weigh 30 stone/190kg you’re unlikely to make old bones. But to extrapolate that to ‘some’ effect from being a few lbs/kg ‘overweight’ is just another exercise of the “linear no threshold model” fallacy.
Big red flags all over this one paragraph alone… Mostly telling the discerning reader this has to do more with overall lifestyle than obesity in and of itself.
Malignant melanoma is nasty, but entirely epithelial( before it gets everywhere..).
For the non-medico’s : it’s a skin cancer that starts in the outermost layer of your skin. The one that peels when you expose Brits to any kind of sun. Sits on top of any potential fat.
Vulval and penile cancers are nowadays strongly associated with (unnoticed) viral and possibly fungal infections. If anything a modern fashionable starvation diet ( which includes Vegan idiocy) makes you more vulnerable to those.
Any and all of the really dangerous gastric and intestinal cancers are , just like malign melanoma, epithelial cancers. The “skin on the inside”.
There’s a ton of stuff what causes them, but fat ain’t it. The terpenes from a decent BBQ char or smoked crust, however, are one of the candidates.
Pituitary, half the stuff that little knob produces are, very much, carginogens in their own right in the wrong time and place. Cancers of the pituitary are also rare.
So much so that any percentage under 100% falls into the “are you sure your result is, y’know….. statistically relevant..” category.
“Head and neck cancers” are so vague you can’t make a sensible remark about them.
Which type exactly? Is it actually a metastase? Is it one of the “benign” cancers , like your average mole ( which is viral in nature to begin with…).
What sport? well…. it has a ball in it… errmm.. yes.. a ball is involved!! Not exactly helpful in discerning what is going on, isn’t it?
At 17-13% best you can say is that being a fatty increases health risks. Which we all already know and can to an extent point to.
You could even state that being too much “overweight” will compromise your immune system, so that it cleans up the daily appearance of cancerous cells less efficiently. Which is something we already know.
Your lifestyle may even include so much bad grease and other stuff that you may as well drink diluted creosote. Which is definitely a bad idea. But cancer wouldn’t kill you when you do that. At least, not before the general poisoning of ..much of everything does.
So yeah…. much of the bovine excrement in that paragraph alone.
Fun bit is… anecdotal, but medically verified:
I have to keep my body weight, between 65 and 70 kilo’s, because of my Embuggerance. Combined with a lot of strenuous exercise. All to keep the stress on my joints as light as possible, and postpone that Scootmobile that’s looming int the future.
Which means I’m hovering around ketonic all the time, am skinny as fvck ( short for cloggies, tall for brits) , with possibly some insulation for the winter, and which my physician has advised me to forget, since it drastically increases my chances on developing bowel cancers.
And switching red/white meat for soy would make it worse….
When you can’t win…. Go Burgundian, and Enjoy life… 😉
“No way man, sleep gives you cancer, everyone knows that”.
Neil Pye.