Obesity is “new smoking”: NHS chiefs warn of 100 weight-related cancers cases a day in next decade

[Northerner]

obesity epidemic[/a] in the UK has been descried as “the new smoking” by NHS bosses who say the number of people who get cancer due to their weight is set to double.

NHS researchers have said that obesity will be responsible for 36,800 new cancer diagnoses per year by 2030.

This would be a 100 people per day being diagnosed with the disease due to their weight and a rise from around 22,800 a year in 2015.

NHS boss Simon Stevens said: “While cancer survival is at a record high, many people don’t yet realise that obesity causes cancer. On current trends by 2030 we could see 100 new patients every day being diagnosed with obesity-related cancer.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/nhs-obesity-causes-cancers-094236602.html

 

[mikeyB]

That’s why I’m desperately trying to lose weight. Wouldn’t want to die of cancer before everything else I’ve got switches out the light