SCIENTISTS in the UK are
predicting obesity and unhealthy
weights will be the linked cause
of 670,000 extra cancer diagnoses
over the next 20 years.
Conducted by the London School
of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine,
researchers based the prediction
on historical health data gathered
on five million people living in the
UK, to predict the impact of obesity
over the next two decades.
Their studies also suggest that
the increasing population of obese
and overweight individuals would
contribute to 4.6 million additional
cases of type-2 diabetes and 1.6
million extra cases of heart disease
by 2035.
To tackle the problem, the report
has recommended an introduction
of a sugar tax and a ban on junk
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