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Public still underestimates obesity-cancer link

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Public still underestimates obesity-cancer link

Forty-one per cent of adults in Britain don’t know that being overweight increases cancer risk, a survey for the World Cancer Research Fund found.

Ignorance of cancer risk

 

The YouGov poll also found that 54 per cent of Britons are not aware that physical inactivity can increase cancer risk, while two-fifths are unaware of the increased cancer risk linked to poor diets or alcohol (40 and 43 per cent). Compared to England and Scotland, adults in Wales are the least aware that being overweight (51 per cent aware), physical inactivity (44 per cent), poor diets (59 per cent) and alcohol (52 per cent) increase cancer risk.

Adults in Yorkshire and the Humber are the least aware of the link between physical inactivity and cancer (59 per cent unaware), while for adults in the West Midlands it is the link with alcohol (54 per cent unaware). For adults in the East of England (47 per cent unaware), it is poor diet and cancer.

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