The risk of obesity giving people cancer may be ‘considerably underestimated’, a study has warned. Being fat may actually be more than twice as dangerous as previously thought when it comes to certain forms of the disease. And excess weight is second only to smoking when it comes to avoidable cancer-causing lifestyles. Bowel, kidney, pancreatic, ovarian, endometrial and oesophageal cancer... 

New statistics released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) show that American women are heavier than they have ever been before. Both men and women have gained weight over the last 50 years, with each gaining roughly 30 pounds, according to the CDC. But one statistic is jarring: the average American woman today weighs 166.2 pounds, or 18.5 percent more than in the 1960s and just...