Being overweight now causes more cases of four common cancers than cigarettes.A Cancer Research UK study has revealed that excess weight is a bigger cause of bowel, kidney, ovarian and liver cancer than tobacco.About 15 million adults in Britain (29 per cent) are obese, more than double the 6 million adult smokers (14 per cent). This is a reversal from the early 1990s, when 27 per cent of adults smoked and 15 per cent were obese.The charity’s first warning that being overweight is the leading cause…
