A very neat little study from Seattle showed that
post-menopausal women who were also either obese or overweight could lower
their risk of some types of breast cancer by losing some of that weight.
Specifically, the women in this study who were able to
lose 5 % of their body weight (and surprisingly, most women in this study
managed to do that; in fact, many lost 10 % of their body weight, which is
remarkable) also ended up reducing their blood levels of some types of
estrogen, and that in turn should lower their ultimate risk of developing an
estrogen-sensitive breast malignancy, which is the most common type of breast
cancer.
Hard to do, but it is doable.
And it is worth it.
