Slim Down to Reduce Cancer Risk

It’s not necessarily the number of calories you eat that influences your risk of cancer, according to results of a new study of mice from the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Instead, researchers there found that body composition – whether you’re lean or, ahem, not – may be what actually makes the difference. The study, published in the January 1, 2007, issue of Cancer Research, reported that in mice predisposed to prostate cancer, the disease progressed more slowly among those than were lean than it did among obese animals. To perform the investigation, the researchers put the groups of study mice into two controlled environments, one with a temperature of 27 degrees centigrade, the other somewhat cooler at 22 degrees centigrade. They then fed the two groups equal amounts of food. The mice in the cooler chamber burned more calories to keep warm, lost weight and became leaner than the mice in the warmer chamber. The researchers concluded that it isn’t the number of calories consumed, but how lean or obese you are that influences cancer risk.
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.......from Dr. Weil website