Obesity and inactivity could someday account for more cancer deaths than smoking if current trends continue, a leading cancer expert says. As the rate of smoking decreases, other unhealthy habits threaten to offset the progress in reducing cancer deaths, says Richard Wender, a physician and chief cancer control officer at the American Cancer
Society (ACS). A study in the New England Journal of Medicine last fall found 13 types of cancer were linked to excess body weight. There’s no guarantee that obesity and inactivity will surpass smoking as a cancer cause, Wender says, but the possibility is startling. “Who would’ve thought we’d ever see the day where what you eat (and) exercise, could account for more cancer deaths than smoking?” he asks. READ MORE
