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Health Risks of Being Overweight
Obesity is defined as a condition of being excessively overweight. There are two main criteria in clinical practice to determine obesity- one is the body mass index (BMI), and the other is hip to waist ratio (WHR). The body mass index cla...
Obesity and Cancer Risks
How much you weigh, and how old you are have a major effect on cancer risk, according to new studies: In adults under 45, tonsil and tongue cancers seem to be rising in many countries, due in part to the sexually transmitted human papilloma virus (HP...
Breast Cancer From Father
If your mom or her sisters never got breast cancer, you don’t have to worry, right? Wrong. You are just as likely to inherit the BRCA1 or BRCA2 mutations, the biggest genetic predictors of the disease, from your father’s side of family. Having th...
Vegetarians and Cancer Risk
Eating a vegetarian diet is definitely a healthy choice and there is no denying the fact that the vegetarians also have lesser chances of developing certain types of cancers, which otherwise can be quite common in those people who eat meat. Vegetaria...
