Obesity and overweight multiply the risk of suffering cancer and heart disease

(IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute)) Obese women are 12 times more like to get cancer than those of a normal weight. Obese men are twice as likely to develop this disease. The data is the result of the largest Spanish study ever in this field, involving a 10-year follow up of 54,000 people from 7 autonomic communities. Only 26 percent of those taking part had a normal weight. The rest were either obese or overweight.