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Re:Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer by tyingq on Saturday October 07, 2017 @12:41PM (#15424461)
Curious if it's cause, or shared effect. Like perhaps the diet of an obese person generally has a higher amount of carcinogens, or lacks in some key antioxidants...in addition to making you overweight.
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Re:Overweight and obesity are linked to cancer by tosstossy on Saturday October 07, 2017 @01:31PM (#15424708)
Obese people probably produce elevated levels of insulin-like growth factors over time due to their dietary choices. IGF-1 is already understood to increase cancer rates.

Intermittent fasting studies tend to focus on IGF-1 levels in the interests of slowing aging, which is of course strongly related to cancer prevention.

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