There's a link between what we eat (and drink) to cancer

How much of what we eat can be linked to cancer? Sugar may play a role.

In August of 2016, the New England Journal of Medicine published a striking report on cancer and body fat: Thirteen separate cancers can now be linked to being overweight or obese, among them a number of the most common and deadly cancers of all – colon, thyroid, ovarian, uterine, pancreatic and (in postmenopausal women) breast cancer.

Earlier this month, a report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention added more detail: Approximately 631,000 people in the US were diagnosed with a body fat-related cancer in 2014, accounting for 40% of all cancers diagnosed that year.