Prof. Dr. Mohamed Elhashemy
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October 02, 2009
Shares of Roseville-based EnteroMedics were trading down more than 70 percent in October, 2nd, 2009. This plunge occurred after the company released disappointing results from a study of its device: VBLOC, which was designed to block impulses of the vagus nerve.
The company's Maestro device is a...
September 21, 2009
Millions of people, especially teenaged females, allover world are now affected by some kind of eating disorder, the common known types being anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa.
The promotion of anorexia nervosa on the web as a lifestyle choice rather than an eating disorder referred to as pro-...
September 16, 2009
A recent research from UT Southwestern Medical Center, led by Dr. Deborah Clegg, showed that palmitic acid (a type of saturated fatty acid) usually found in junk food and ice-cream tells the brain that we need to keep eating. This fat makes us hungrier because it sends signals to the brain to keep e...
September 11, 2009
The best scientific diet plan – in my opinion – should deal with educating obese people to be hypophagic for long. This can be done through training on my innovated Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan. The hypophagic personality leads to feeling of self-control, which in turn leads to high self-esteem...
September 03, 2009
This will be my upcoming scientific diet plan of 2010. It's an amazing plan that makes you progressively lose 1-2 pounds per week. It is a very effective plan that let you reach your targeted weight, and then helps you keep it on. I named it Elhashemy´s Hypophagic Lifestyle "EHL".
It deals with l...
August 24, 2009
A modified stamp-sized 'micro-needle' patch when applied to the gastric fundus mucosa may curb hunger through boosting Elhashemy´s Stomach Satiety Spot "ESSS".
It may be the most suitable and least troubling invention that curbs hunger in over-eater obese people.
In August 2009, Dr. Mark Praus...
August 18, 2009
Elhashemy´s Hypophagic Lifestyle "EHL" is a long–term condition of induced reduced food intake. Those obese patients who adopt this lifestyle will go on losing all their extra weight within 2 years, even if that extra weight exceeds 220 pounds.
Any obese, or super obese patient who tolerate...
August 07, 2009
In August 2009, a scientific research published online by the journal Science revealed that scientists have pinpointed a type of nerve cell in mice which appears to generate the itch sensation.
On the same principal, I think that a day will come soon, when researchers may find specific nerve cell...
August 05, 2009
Obesity causes many dangers to health. It is also very costing to the individual & the community. All researches revealed that medical spending for an obese person is far more than for a person with normal weight.
The costs may be due to the dieting on special items, the use of slimming drugs, or...
August 03, 2009
When you developed this hypophagic lifestyle, you will unintentionally eat the least volumes of food, even if you are hungry, and even if you are confronted with all delicious foods that you like.
It is a very aggressive form of dietary lifestyle which will enforce you unintentionally to reach th...
July 04, 2009
According to F as in Fat: How Obesity Policies are Failing in America 2009, a report released by the Trust for America's Health (TFAH) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF): Obesity rates are on the rise nationwide.
The report found adult obesity rates increased in 23 states last year and...
June 12, 2009
In June 2008, I developed Elhashemy´s Stomach Satiety Spot "ESSS" theory, aiming at assisting obese to eat less food volumes, hence lowering their body weight gradually to reach near the normal standards.
At present article I will discuss a related subject which I named Satiety Gratificati...
April 20, 2009
In a study supported by the U.S. Highbush Blueberry Council., E. Mitchell Seymour, research scientist of University of Michigan found that rats fed the blueberry powder for 90 days had less abdominal fat. This may be a leading factor to a lower the incidence of cardiovascular disease and diabetes.
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April 18, 2009
Brown fat, or Brown Adipose Tissue "BAT", is present in relatively higher volumes in newborns because they are more susceptible to heat loss due to their larger surface area-to-volume ratio, also due to their inability to generate heat by other means, such as by shivering.
Scientists had believe...
April 09, 2009
Three new studies appearing recently in the New England Journal of Medicine "NEJM" show that most adults have - unexpectedly - some active deposits of a calorie-burning type of fat known as Brown Adipose Tissue "BAT".
The first research was done by Sven Enerback, University of Goteborg in Sweden....
April 04, 2009
Eating 3 almonds together every hour for seven successive hours, before the main daily meal, may reduce 33% of its net Caloric value.
I am the developer of the Luqaimat diet (2005), which consists of 7-10 micro-meals (Luqaimat in Arabic language) and a moderate size meal at end of day.
I foun...
March 06, 2009
My experience as a medical professor gave me evidences that, for most people, diets rarely work, even if they were put on low calorie diet. I found that more than 95% of my patients returned to my clinic by end of the first year, with their original extra over weight, or even heavier. This caused gr...
March 04, 2009
This means: Luqaimat diet = Low-Volume Diet = Less Caloric Intake = Losing all extra Weight
Luqaimat is the Arabic word for the smallest volume of food just to supply your body with energy. I believe that the most natural and successful diet plan would be the Luqaimat diet; because it just asks ...
February 19, 2009
Scientists of University of Liverpool claim that the degeneration of retinal macula caused by aging could be reduced by up to 20% by increasing the amount of fruit, vegetables and nuts in the diet.
I think to be more scientific and more effective, we should not only include any fruit in seniors&a...
February 16, 2009
The greatest challenge to weight loss experts is to assist obese kids to lose all their extra weight permanently. I believe that my innovated "Elhashemy´s Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan" is the only diet plan that has succeeded in this aspect.
It is estimated that obese kids currently re...
January 17, 2009
The British Government has launched a new scheme that may help people watch what they eat in restaurants and other food outlets.
The Food Standards Agency (FSA) has advised calorie labeling scheme, but is looking for caterers to provide calorie information on menus with more information about fat...
December 29, 2008
A new study performed by Thomas Inge, associate professor of surgery and pediatrics, and surgical director of the Surgical Weight Loss Program for Teens at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center; has found that diabetic teens may be helped by going through bariatric surgery such as gastric by...
December 12, 2008
In this era there are millions of overweight & obese ladies experienced the same failure as the most famous dieter Oprah Winfrey. They tried all possible diets including: Atkins, weightwatchers, low-fat diet, & liquid-diet. Most of them have always gone up and down cycles (yo-yo cycles).
If Opra...
November 27, 2008
Obese people want the quickest way to lose weight. Most of them seek out weight-loss tips from celebrity magazines and the latest fad diets.
It is settled that FDA only approved two drugs up till now which are Xenical & Meridia. The first drug acts on the gut while the second acts on satiety cent...
November 20, 2008
A paper published in the November 19th, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association in which authors found that pregnant women who'd had bariatric surgery had lower maternal complication rates than obese women who did not did that surgery. An obese woman who has weight-loss surgery...
November 15, 2008
Researchers from Imperial College London and the German Institute of Human Nutrition performed large study comparing the waist sizes of obese and normal persons with their body mass index. They found that excess fat around the waistline increases the risk of early death, even in people considered to...
November 01, 2008
Reducing obesity is an international priority. According to the World Health Organization, about 1 billion people worldwide are overweight or obese.
Humans usually eat in discrete periods of time, that is, they eat their meals usually 3-5 times daily. Before a meal begins; the sensation of hunger...
October 24, 2008
A Danish research, published in October 2008, led by Professor Arne Astrup from the University of Copenhagen, studied the effect of a new hunger suppressing drug named tesofensine which is a triple monoamine re-uptake inhibitor. They split a group of 203 obese patients into two groups.
First gro...
October 02, 2008
I wrote a detailed article published October 1st, 2008 on American Chronicle website with the title: "Elhashemy's Satiety Spot Simulator … A Revolutionary Weight Loss Device" this article impressed the value of manufacturing a gastric simulator that will be used in educating obese people in order to...
September 30, 2008
Consider the following facts:
1. Obesity epidemic is soaring allover the world.
2. Humans eat not only to satisfy their hunger, but also because of social pressure, tension, boredom, and bad lifestyle habits.
3. Dieting and other lifestyle changes can only lead to mild weight loss, even worse i...
September 17, 2008
Among over 70 articles written starting September 16th, 2008 on internet, many of these articles were incorrect concerning the blood vessel that was embolized in the research done by Dr. Aravind Arepally of the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, who led the study. These articles said that ...
September 16, 2008
In an excellent experimental research done at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine published in September 16th, 2008, issue of Radiology; the researchers reported that when blocking the artery supplying the fundus of pigs' stomach, Ghrelin level was lowered by 60%. The researchers named their...
September 09, 2008
Researches have shown a link between BMI and variants of the fat mass and obesity associated with the (FTO) gene. The mutations connected with obesity occur in about 30 percent of European populations and are associated with about 5-lb increase in body weight
People with two copies of the FTO gen...
September 07, 2008
Many researchers observed these days the skyrocketing of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease within kids and teenagers in most countries of the world. Some of these researchers estimated that nearly 10% of all children and 50% obese kids may suffer from non-alcoholic fatty liver disease.
Fatty liv...
September 03, 2008
A scientific analysis, under the supervision of Helen Truby published in BioMed Central's Nutrition Journal, studied four of the most popular commercial diet plans: Slim Fast, Atkins, Weight Watchers and Rosemary Conley's "Eat Yourself Slim" Diet & Fitness Plan. These scientists tested the weight lo...
August 31, 2008
Luqaimat diet is not ordinary diet, but it is a lifestyle plan which combines training on daily frequent intake of micro-meals (Luqaimat in Arabic Language) with eating favorite foods.
And here are my advices to the million of fasting Muslims in Ramadan built on scientific and religious basis:
...
August 29, 2008
Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan is a comprehensive strategy that employs specific food types of micro-sized meals (Luqaimat in Arabic language) to induce different biological and psychological responses, with the purpose of obtaining ideal body weight and maintaining it for life.
I...
August 06, 2008
The Center for Science in the Public Interest CSPI said that it is difficult to find anything healthful for a child to eat at most restaurant chains. Most kids' combo meals at most top restaurant chains have:
1. Too many calories.
2. Too much salt.
3. Too much fat.
4. Too huge volumes.
More...
August 04, 2008
Mr. M. Yousry, a 40 year old Egyptian, living in Cairo, who weighs 455 pounds, and is 6 feet 2 inch tall, (i.e. BMI around 61), has been advised by his physician that the best way to manage his hypertension is to reduce significantly his extra weight.
In an average day, Yousry eats several proces...
July 26, 2008
All researchers agree that more than 95% of obesity must not be considered as a medical problem. Those people who eat big volumes of food become obese, so if they eat less, surely they will reverse their condition and return thin. I think that obesity must not be managed as a medical problem that ca...
July 18, 2008
How to triple your weight loss?
In a recent excellent study, published in The New England Journal of Medicine, 17 July 2008, and performed by dietitians leaded by Dr. Iris Shai, proves the well known fact that even the 3 most popular diets do not work well.
The researchers in the st...
July 15, 2008
Based on my theory of Elhashemy's Stomach Satiety Spot (ESSS), competitive speed eaters can consume large quantities of food in short period of time (such as 15 minutes) due to suppressing stomach Satiety Spot (neuronal effect) and not due to suppressing the satiety hormones.
Many scientists sugg...
July 13, 2008
ELHASHEMY'S STOMACH SATIETY SPOT (ESSS) is a breakthrough in the field of satiety science as well as in the field of Luqaimat Science.
Suppose we can hit softly the gastric mucosa at certain area of the fundus (of course without damaging it) and suppose that this area contains the nerves of s...
July 01, 2008
In 2008, I developed a breakthrough scientific theory that could completely delete hunger bangs, and gastric expansion, leading to loss of extra weight completely. I announced this theory under the name Elhashemy's Stomach Satiety Spot "ESSS".
ESSS is the first theory to postulate that there must...
Elhashemy's Stomach Satiety Spot "ESSS" .. Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan – Factor 18
June 26, 2008
It is the crème de la crème of Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan. I believe that we can knockout completely the obesity dilemma by this innovated idea. It needs no dieting program and no banning of any kind of food. It is a very brilliant idea, if you get used to it you will consider Luq...
June 24, 2008
Daniela Jakubowicz, MD, of the Hospital de Clinicas, Caracas, Venzezuela with scientists from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, performed a research that concluded that eating a big breakfast packed with carbohydrates and protein, followed by a low-carb, low-calorie diet the rest of the ...
June 21, 2008
I have discussed before the FIT "Fidgeting, Intermittent & Transient" Factor, a genuine factor in my scientific Luqaimat diet plan. By Intermittent I mean: few times spread allover the day, by Transient I mean: few minutes each time, and by Fidget I mean: moving around spontaneously allover the day ...
June 13, 2008
I am in a mission to transform obese people allover the world from the OBESE state to the EX-OBESE state, through spreading my innovated "Luqaimat Diet Plan".
I innovated Luqaimat diet in Jan 2005. My first study group involved 345 non-diabetic obese patients with average age of 32 years, and ave...
May 27, 2008
In January 2008, I invented a new food supplement consisting of: pistachios, hazelnut, and chocolate cream, that if eaten as small spoonfuls six times daily help dieters lose an average of 42 pounds over twenty weeks. I think that its main action is to block the hunger sensations through suppressing...
May 24, 2008
I am in a mission to help obese people allover the world to be an ex-obese, through spreading my innovated "Luqaimat Diet Plan" like the spread of good viruses. Not all bugs are bad, few types of bacteria are beneficial (e.g. lactobacilli – present in yoghurt – which are good for gut). As the spread...
May 17, 2008
Bad news for all dieters following crash diets plans:
Dr. Kirsty Spalding and colleagues of the Karolinska Institute in Sweden (2008) found that when they tested patients whom had lost weight (even in huge amounts) they had little changes in their fat cells count. This may contradict many scienti...
May 07, 2008
If you have done weight watchers, Jenny Craig, or even Atkins diets, you most probably have lost 20 - 50 pounds but also you have put it right back (as most studies proved). As American Consumer Opinion found that less than 10% of obese people are successful at keeping the weight they lost through d...
May 01, 2008
In January 2005, I innovated my Luqaimat Diet Plan which is based mainly on what I call: Luqaimat training Technique "LTT". This technique includes in its first stage, training the person for at least three weeks to eat very small meals (Luqaimat in Arabic Language). By frequent training, the fluid ...
April 26, 2008
It is Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan. If you follow it closely you will get excellent success rate. I usually do not devote my articles to criticize any diet even if it is fad. But I here have to discuss "The Alternate Day Diet", a diet which seems theoretically close to my innovated ...
April 25, 2008
In the previous article we discussed factor number 12 among Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan where I explained how to partially block the biological-hunger clock so that obese people can reach satiety by eating half of their standard main meal. In the current article I will introduce an...
April 17, 2008
In the present article I will discuss factor number 12 among Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan, which is blocking the biological clock of hunger. My scientific diet plan is of great help to all obese people including those extremely obese (BMI 40 and above).
Most of us know that there...
April 10, 2008
"FIT" is the abbreviation of "Fidgeting, Intermittent & Transient", a genuine factor in my scientific Luqaimat diet plan. We become obese when we consume more calories than we burn up (i.e. when we have a positive caloric balance). Weight loss programs and fad diets usually focus on dietary changes ...
April 02, 2008
In my previous article (Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan … 10. NUTPISTELLA Factor) I discussed a unique method to transform the famous hazelnut-chocolate spread "Nutella" into a healthy dieting super-food, which I named NUTPISTELLA. In this article I will continue this elaboration in de...
March 29, 2008
We can lose weight on nutella diet if we eat it as Luqaimat-sized meals several times daily every other week, spreading half-filled table spoonful instead of its standard serving (two spoonfuls) on half piece of toast (instead of two pieces), this is what I call Luqaimat nutella diet. This Luqaimat ...
March 27, 2008
Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan is a comprehensive strategy that employs specific food types of micro-sized meals (Luqaimat in Arabic language) to induce different biological and psychological responses, with the purpose of obtaining ideal body weight and maintaining it for life.
I...
March 22, 2008
In the previous article which discussed The Luqaimat Cues (factor no. 7), I discussed Elhashemy's classifications of the four grades of eaters, which are:
Grade I: The Aggressive Eaters.
Typically they are extremely obese (BMI 35+).
They eat all food in front of them even if their stomachs are...
March 19, 2008
Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan is a comprehensive strategy that employs specific food types of micro-sized meals (Luqaimat in Arabic language) to induce different biological and psychological responses, with the purpose of obtaining ideal body weight and maintaining it for life.
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March 12, 2008
Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan is a comprehensive strategy that employs specific food types of micro-sized meals (Luqaimat in Arabic language) to induce different biological and psychological responses, with the purpose of obtaining ideal body weight and maintaining it for life.
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March 02, 2008
It cheers your mood; it cheers your tongue; and it cheers your eyes, especially if you are on a diet. It is nutella, the famous hazelnut chocolate spread.
In my previous article, I discussed the importance of the superfoods as slimming factor; I classified cacao and chocolate as the third importa...
February 29, 2008
Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan is a comprehensive strategy that employs specific food types of micro-sized meals (Luqaimat in Arabic language) to induce different biological and psychological responses, with the purpose of obtaining ideal body weight and maintaining it for life.
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February 22, 2008
Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan is a comprehensive strategy that employs specific food types of micro-sized meals (Luqaimat in Arabic language) to induce different biological and psychological responses, with the purpose of obtaining ideal body weight and maintaining it for life.
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February 14, 2008
Elhashemy's Broad Spectrum Luqaimat Diet Plan is a comprehensive strategy that employs specific food types of micro-sized meals (Luqaimat in Arabic language) to induce different biological and psychological responses, with the purpose of obtaining ideal body weight and maintaining it for life.
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February 08, 2008
In July 2007, I had a personal experience for the effect of gut bacterial ratio on body weight. One day in July, I had severe diarrhea, so I used certain intestinal antiseptic suspension for three days only. One week later, to my surprise, I found that my weight was 5 pounds less although by then my...
January 29, 2008
With obesity rates rising and soaring among people allover the world with its major complication: diabetes type 2, scientists have to spend every effort to curb the rise of this disease because it leads to social and economic instability to every country. In USA it was estimated that the economic lo...
January 26, 2008
The American Diabetes Association is the authoritative source of information about diabetes in the United States. In January 23rd, 2008, it announced the following important facts:
1. Uncontrolled diabetes has soared in USA.
2. There are increments of nearly one million diabetic patients every y...
January 24, 2008
PYY is a peptide hormone secreted naturally from the gastro intestinal tract and passes through the blood circulation to the brain. It contributes to the feeling of satiety and sensation of fullness. A recent research in neuroscience showed that the long-term increase in PYY in mice can reduce obesi...
January 24, 2008
Each New Year, millions of obese people make their resolution to start a diet program. Near the end of January, 3 out of each 4 started that diet program usually end in frustration, for those people, I give a great advice: don´t be depressed by your failure, be ready again on February 2nd, and...
January 18, 2008
Yale University researchers in 2006 found that the hunger hormone Ghrelin triggers certain neurons that are located in Ventral Tegmental Area "VTA" of the brain. These neurons are well known to function as reward and pleasure sensation. Again, these neurons are known to response to delicious foods a...
January 09, 2008
Most dietitians and obese patients allover the world are familiar with a single dieting pathway based on: "vision – stomach – brain" link, and this is accomplished through filling the stomach container with large-volume low-calorie foods such as green salad, foods rich in water and/or fibers. The mo...
January 07, 2008
Kids' obesity is a growing problem in the world, with nearly one out of every three children is overweight or obese. Convincing kids to eat healthy food volumes is up till now a losing battle. Fast food industry is usually blamed due to its promotion of mega-volume sandwiches. I think that one of th...
January 02, 2008
The most common New Year resolution obese people make is to get rid of their extra weight. Market researchers of weigh loss industry realize this fact, and accordingly medical authors, journalists, and weight-loss industry becomes more aggressive in every New Year to promote their diet books and adv...
December 28, 2007
Tackling kids' obesity the wrong way makes matters worse. The worst way to tackle obesity is to give: do and don’t do orders; and the best diet is that which leave your children to their nature but giving them repeated cues (visual, acoustic, and psychological) about lower food volumes, and extra ex...
December 27, 2007
Can you help your kids to lose 40 pounds of their extra weight? Yes you can, but not in 40 days as advertisements say. Even if this actually happen, there will be a rebound phenomenon and they will gain these pounds in the next 40 days. Actually this weight loss should take a full year, so forget ab...
December 25, 2007
The problem of childhood obesity has grown considerably in recent years. Obese children run the risk of diabetes, high blood pressure, cholesterol problems and other ailments more commonly found in adults. And overweight children are likely to grow up to be overweight adults.
It is estimated that...
December 21, 2007
The problem of childhood obesity has grown considerably in recent years. About 30% of children and adolescents are obese. Obesity is among the easiest medical conditions to recognize but most difficult to treat. Three out of each four overweight children are much more likely to become overweight adu...
December 20, 2007
In 2007, scientists ascertained an important obesity cause: fatness is contagious. They correlated obesity to social networks, based on very important findings. According to data generated by the Framingham Heart study, involving more than 12,000 persons evaluated over a 32-year period, obese people...
December 15, 2007
If you are overweight by 20 pounds or more and are not interested to follow any diet plan or to use any anti-obesity drug to reduce your extra body weight, you can just eat 3 Luqaimat (micro-meals) each day and you will be loosing these 20 pounds within one year. Under this diet, you will not need t...
December 04, 2007
Boosting the power of the brain's centers controlling hunger, gluttony, and reward could be one of the secrets behind the success of Luqaimat diet. This boost of the brain power depends mainly on enriching the memory collected by obese patients through their relatives and friends about the Luqaimat ...
November 29, 2007
Luqaimat diet will most likely be one of the most promising diet plans in the near future. Up till now, I have published on the internet over 43 articles about my innovated breakthrough diet. All these articles discussed my studies and efforts to explore the secrets behind the success of this diet, ...
November 24, 2007
Wear your Pedometer, count your steps daily, and you can lose 2.5 Kg after 18 weeks. Use your "Luqaimat Motivator", count your seven Luqaimat meals daily, and you can lose 10.4 Kg in 12 weeks only (i.e. over 4 times the weight loss resulting from using Pedometer). The Luqaimat diet motivator, which ...
November 16, 2007
What are all obese patients searching for? They are all searching for an end for their long suffering from the ugly appearance, the bulging waist, the dyspnoeaic breathing, and the apnoeaic sleeping. But to achieve these goals of sliming they have to sacrifice all delicious foods they like, to tole...
November 16, 2007
Thousands of obese people who had gastric bypass surgeries achieved long-term weight loss. In contrast, the majority of the millions who did dieting, exercise, and used weight-loss drugs failed to maintain their achieved new weights.
The scientific reasoning for that observation was described in ...
November 09, 2007
Luqaimat is an Arabic word for the minimum amount of food in one's diet that must be eaten in order to keep fit. In January 2005, I created a new definition for it as to become the smallest volume of any type of food that could satiate one's psychological hunger; hence it is related to each person's...
November 07, 2007
A new US study of 9 – 12 years old children suggest that those who do not get enough sleep (9 hours average) are at increased risk of getting obese. The study was performed at the University of Michigan by Dr Julia Lumeng who looked at 785 children from 10 US cities and analyzed their sleep patterns...
November 02, 2007
According to the report released 31st, October 2007 by the American Institute for Cancer Research and the World Cancer Research Fund: "if we adopt weight management, proper nutrition and exercise are key to reducing our risk of cancer". Researchers said: "examining the causes of cancer this way, acr...