Harmful Effects of Obesity Health Problems You Might be in Danger of
Many leading types of cancer are effects of obesity. Health problems caused by being overweight go beyond cancers. Other adverse obesity effects on your health are heart diseases and diabetes. But that's another topic. Let's talk about cancer types that are influenced by your body mass index or weight.
All of these obesity effects promote tumor development in the walls of the colon.
2) Breast Cancer
Breast tumor is one of the effects of obesity. Being overweight leads to the development of cancerous cells in your breasts, particularly the postmenopausal type. It is found out that:
before menopause, obese women have lower risk for it than women with healthy weight
after menopause, the risk for an obese woman is 1.5 times higher
obese women have increased risk of dying from breast cancer compared to lean women. Thus, it is recommended that a woman's BMI should be below 25 throughout her adult life.
a breast tumor in obese women is more likely to be detected when it is already late-stage. Detection and prevention of a malignant tumor in an overweight woman is more difficult
large abdominal fat is found to add to risk for breast cancer
Postmenopausal breast cancer and obesity are connected because estrogen is produced largely in ovaries. After menopause, the ovaries stop doing so and fat tissues are now the source of estrogen.
One of the harmful effects of obesity is on the level of estrogen. Being postmenopausal and overweight at the same increases your estrogen levels up to 50 to 100% higher.
Breast tissues are sensitive to estrogen. When breast tissues are exposed to heavy stimulation from estrogen, it results to faster growth of breast tumors.
