Overweight increases the risk of contracting all cancer by 12 percent

This includes breast cancer, kidney cancer, heart cancer, leukemia, brain cancer and non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The team says rising overweight levels and heavy overweight will increase cancer rates worldwide, receive a fee for health care costs, and see more people dying prematurely, broadcast Kosovas.

For the study, published in the Internal Medicine newspaper, the team looked at cancer data in Denmark for a 40-year period, from 1977 to 2016.

Researchers found 20,706 cancer among 313,321 adults who were clinically diagnosed with overweight.

By comparison, there were 18,480 diagnosed cancers among the general Danish population for the same period of time.

This means that weight above average increased the risk of all cancers by 12 percent.

The danger posed was the same for cancers previously identified as overweight related, such as kidney cancer and pancreatic cancer, and for blood and neurologic cancers.

So why is obesity linked to an increase in risk of cancer?

Scientists have found that overweight is associated with a rapid increase in cell numbers, as well as the secreting of high levels of proteins and hormones that are pro-inflammatory, such as estrogen, all related to cancer.

In view of the rising epidemic of overweight, our findings have contributed to the latest data on the overall burden of cancer among hospital patients because of overweight,” writes the authors in the study.

Obessity is known as a risk factor for certain chronic health conditions, besides cancer, including Type 2, strokes and heart attacks.

American health officials say addressing the overweight epidemic will not only lead to better health results but also reduce medical costs.

In 2012, a study by Cornell University, New York, revealed that obesity accounts for about 21 percent of the total cost of American health care - approximately $190.2 billion a year.