Can Obesity Cause Cancer?

Over the last few years, several studies have begun to shed light on the connection between cancer and obesity. For overweight people, the news isn't good. In the U.S., as many as 100,000 cancer cases diagnosed each year could be prevented if people simply lost weight. That's about 6% of all of the cancer cases. With obesity and overweight increasing in virtually every developed country in the world, these are numbers that we need to take very seriously.