A report came out yesterday attributing 100,000 cancer diagnoses per year directly attributable to obesity. It is well known that colon, breast, pancreatic and esophogeal cancers have been linked to weight issues but also endometrial cancer is associated with obesity.
Every day we are reading reports about Swine flu...a disease which has killed about 100 people. The report about the 100,000 cancer diagnoses was on page 20 in a small article.
Obesity and weight contol issues are killing Americans at a rate far greater than any virus or terrorist attacks. The major threat to America is coming from within....and that is our inability to make significant headway into the obesity epidemic.
On an individual and family basis, we all need to do our part to make this catastrophic problem go away. Please think about this lots....and decide which is more important....being healthy to enjoy your family and the fruits of your hatd work or some food source that temporarily makes you feel good, but yet is leading to future medical catastrophy.
Sorry for the bummer of an entry this morning but seeing this report buried deep into a newspaper angers me...this is front page stuff.
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