How can excessive weight increase my risk of cancer?

How can excessive weight increase my risk of cancer?

Susan Silberstein & Marilyn Joyce (Health and Nutrition Educator & Heath Counselor) gives expert video advice on: How can excessive weight increase my risk of cancer?; What foods can help alleviate my nausea caused by cancer treatments?; What foods might help prevent hair loss caused by cancer treatments? and more...

Definitely, with obesity you're increasing your risk of any major illness because when you are overweight your body cannot function effectively. There is not one function that will work efficiently and effectively when your body is struggling to carry around excess weight when you are overweight or obese. So much energy is exerted on just carrying that extra weight around. I've had overweight clients carry around a 25-pound bag on either side with each hand or arm, for about an hour, just to get the sense of what they are creating in their body by being overweight. They don't realize that's happening, but that excess weight has to be dealt with, and being obese or overweight is not therefore allowing the body to take care of the other functions effectively or efficiently.