One in five future thyroid cancers linked to excess weight (two in five for men, alone)

Medical Xpress / University of New South Wales / International Journal of Cancer ^ | Dec. 10, 2021 | Diane Nazaroff / Maarit A. Laaksonen et al

[ConservativeMind]

The prevalence of obesity has doubled in Australia in the last two decades. As a result, overweight and obesity will be associated with 10,000 thyroid cancers in the next decade.

Avoiding excess weight, especially obesity, should be a priority for thyroid cancer prevention, the first study to evaluate future thyroid cancer burden in Australia has found.

The world-first study found that 1 in 5 future thyroid cancers in Australia is attributable to current levels of overweight and obesity.

Dr. Laaksonen, a senior lecturer in Data Science, says this is concerning as the prevalence of obesity in Australia has doubled during the last two decades, with 75 percent of Australian men and 60 percent of Australian women being overweight or obese.

"This finding translates to close to 10,000 thyroid cancers in the next 10 years," Dr. Laaksonen says. "Obesity explains 75 percent of this burden in Australia."

But Dr. Laaksonen says this is the first time a study has evaluated the thyroid cancer burden attributable to current levels of overweight and obesity and compared this burden by sex.

Thyroid cancer is one of the few cancers that is two to three times as common in women as in men, but Dr. Laaksonen says the study found that the future thyroid cancer burden attributable to overweight/obese is higher for men compared with women.

Being overweight or obese explains two in five thyroid cancers in men, and one in 10 thyroid cancers in women.

"It is still not well understood what causes the sex difference in overweight/obesity-related thyroid cancer risk," Dr. Laaksonen says.

"But our findings add evidence to the urgent need to halt and reverse the current global trend in weight gain, especially obesity and especially in men."

[Veto!]

I guess it is, but I don’r want to give it a title and make it too official. I’d just rather eat when I feel like it. If I were a better cook, or even enjoyed cooking, I’d probably eat more. Do pig out at daughter’s house.

[Harmless Teddy Bear]

Your organs can only take so much.

Don't strain them and they will serve you well.

[fluorescence]

> in Australia

Now that lockdowns and being micromanaged by the government are their standard model for managing disease, why not for this? One third of them are obese and another third just overweight so this is a big problem. Looking forward to them being locked down to prevent this impending epidemic of preventable thyroid cancers.
Skinny people should not just be locked down but sent to a resilience camp to keep them safe. They could still get fat if they’re allowed outside to eat fast food.
If it saves just one life...

[Norski]

The removal of iodine over the last 40-50 years, replacement by bromine in bread, and the insertion of flouride in the water systems may have had an effect . . . might want to check the goiter statistics. . . Life Extension Foundation has articles on the massive iodine and magnesium deficiencies of the American populace.

www.lef.org

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[Trillian]

My doctor told me about lack of iodine, selenium.. especially in the midwest. He has me on supplements in addition to my thyroid pills. I wish I would have known about everything decades ago.