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I want to give my two cents on the ongoing debate if you call it that
Regarding the link between obesity and cancer
obesity and cancer, okay
There's been this public awareness campaign instigated by Cancer Research, UK a very nice charity
the campaign's been going on on radio, and I listen to classic FM, and I've been hearing the body campaign on Classic FM radio and
Because I've been busy
I have not had the time to actually go into the Cancer Research UK website and basically the crux of the matter is that?
Cancer Research, UK is saying that obesity has now been established as the second
preventable cause of
cancer in the UK
behind smoking
Because I've been busy
I've not had time to go to our website to see what they had an offer but about two days ago
I went to their website, and I actually was impressed with the information they had there for the public
For a start they had a list of the cancers where this link has been established
Some links are stronger than others
So because include cancer of the esophagus
Cancer the breast after menopause, pancreas, cancer the kidney, cancer the bowel, cancer the womb
Meningoma which is a type of brain cancer
cancer with thyroid, cancer
liver, cancer the stomach
cancer the gallbladder, cancer of the ovaries as well as
Myeloma which is a type of blood cancer?
and they also had a very nice video there that explains the link between obesity and cancer and
The explanation was done in plain English for everybody to understand, and you think this is a good thing
I was impressed, and I'm sure my medical colleagues when they go onto the website. They would be impressed as well
But some people had objections to that
as with everything in life some people have to object and
In particular there was one celebrity who sent a flurry of tweets
regarding the
The work, that's been done by Cancer Research UK about this public awareness campaign, and she called it fat shaming
Which is a shame really?
Here is one of her tweets
Classy, isn't it and here's another
And here's another
So as you can tell the celebrity who sent out those flurry of tweets and name is Sofiie Hagen and
Something she forgets is that as a celebrity on social media with a huge following you are an influencer
What that means is your followers... They look up to you for?
Ideas and advice, and if you decide to take issues with a public awareness campaign like that
Then of course in my opinion you not taking that responsibility seriously
It's okay to have a debate
But the debate should be based on facts
now
Here is something Sofie said and I quote
"Society viewing fatness as a negative thing is a thing that kills more than cancer" unquote
Really? Sofie
Society viewing fatness as a negative thing kills people more than cancer??
Where did you get this piece of information from that's what I want to know okay?
I'm not in any way suggesting that society should view fatness as a negative thing. Of course some people are going to be fat
It's it doesn't have to be that we're all gonna be skinny
but to suggest
That society viewing fatness as a negative thing kills people more than cancer
That's the bit that I don't understand. We live in a Democratic Society, so it's okay for us to have debates
But these debates should be based on facts and figures
By making bold statements like this
That do not have any backing whatsoever that is fat shaming
by doing so, you are moving the argument from a
Scientific one to an emotional one and of course people respond to emotions better than they do to science
It's the path of least resistance and I disagree with you wholeheartedly
Because as a doctor. I see we health damage caused by obesity all of the time now
I don't even see half as much as my colleagues in oncology. My colleagues in oncology. They see that every day of their working lives
of their working lives. Of course the causes of cancer are multi-factorial
no, one is saying obesity alone causes cancer. It's just that it is one of the risk factors and
If you take steps to reduce your weight
Then of course you are reducing your risk of developing cancer. You are eliminating one of the risk factors and
Here's something else people like Sofie should know; it's not just cancer research UK
That is saying that
Obesity is the second preventable cause of
Cancer only second to smoking
the World Health Organization actually agrees
This means it's a public health problem, and we have to do something about it especially
As childhood obesity is becoming a problem in itself
We need to tackle this problem now otherwise especially childhood obesity because we are going to have problems later on
Huge problems on the health service, huge demand on the health service
So it makes sense for us to do something about it starting now, and that is why?
Somebody like me, I support the campaign being carried out by
Cancer Research UK
So what can you do to actually reduce your weight if you are overweight or frankly obese?
Well, you don't have to do a huge amount at the beginning. You can just start small and build it up gradually
okay, start small and build it up gradually I
Know that Sofie did complain about the fact that BMI has been used as a tool and BMI is not good for anything
Yes BMI does have its limitations, but it's not totally useless
It's probably one of the best we have at the moment
the limitation of being the fact that it doesn't represent all the usual parameters that
Give the entire picture of your body weight i.e muscle, fat, bone, water content, of your body so
If you are full of muscle of course your BMI is gonna be high and that is
Not representative of what you actually are because you are in good health. You full of more so you have very little fat
So BMI has those limitations. Now if you are concerned about
All of those issues here is a tool that I use this this one here
This is an Ozeri
electronic waste scale
It's not very expensive. I'm gonna leave a link in the description
You can get it from Amazon
Now this will scale this weighing scale
Gives all of those parameters. It tells you you know your
Body fat content, percentage. I should say body fat percentage. You know total body
Muscle mass. It tells about you know your bone content as well as how much water you've got in your body
It gives a lot of parameters, and you can actually it's very very nice tool because when you are shedding your weight
You can actually see your body fat percentage
Coming down and that in itself is empowering you know
It's it encourages you to carry on so this is this is what I use you know
Like I said, I'm gonna live a link in the description for you to
To go to Amazon if you if its something that's gonna interest you so you can use that
If you're not interested in the BMI because this one is a lot more representative of what's actually going on
It tells you how much Muscle you've got
How much fat you've got. What's important is actually the body fat percentage the more body fat you have, the
Higher your risk of developing cancer all right well put it this way it becomes the risk factor for cancer
Of course we're talking about diet and exercise as the measures that you take to reduce your body fat
Now if you notice I'm talking about body fat, because that's the important
parameter
Reducing your body fat. It's all about fat loss
It's not so much about weight loss to be honest. It's usually fat loss. It's the fat that is the problem
You can increase your muscle mass. That's great you know, but you need to bring down your body fat content
Now diet and exercise these those are the usual things. I said you just start small and build it up
And you don't have to go to the gym. There are home exercises that you can do as well
As far as diet is concerned. Well. I wrote an article earlier this year
It's about new year
You know weight loss, and I gave some strategies there and indeed I was talking about 'System Change'
Okay, system change now. The link is provided in the description
In that article I talked about system change
Things you can do in the new year that
Will help you to reduce your weight of course weight loss is not confined to the first two weeks of January
It's something that we should be doing 365 days a year
And it's not so much about dieting to be honest. It's just making some systematic changes
If you go on to that article you'll see what I'm talking about
And you don't need to do all of those things there
You just need to pick one all right. At most pick two and that's it and you'll be surprised at the results you'll get
alright
So you know it's it's all there for you
To take advantage of because when it comes to reducing your weight or reducing your fat your body fat
It's all it's more about what goes in here the food?
this is more important than the exercise. The exercise is important
exercise actually constitutes 25% of
Your weight loss strategy. The rest of it is; what goes into your mouth the food is very very important
Yeah, so that's it for today remember the Cancer Research, UK campaign is not about fat shaming not at all
It's about raising awareness of the risks associated
With obesity and it's linked to cancer okay
It's not about trying to stigmatize people who are overweight not at all
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That's it. The link to the article I am talking about is provided in the description along with all the other links
Including the link to cancer research, UK if you haven't been to the website
I'm gonna leave a link there as well. Okay, so that's it until
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