1.
World Health Organization review of more than 1000 studies has found solid evidence that being overweight or obese does increase your risk for _____ types of cancers.
2.
A new review from the New England Journal of Medicine links an additional ____ cancers to fat.
3.
How many Americans are either overweight or obese?
4.
According to the speaker, as the overweight and obesity rates increase in the U.S., we may see within the next ____ to ____ years an additional explosion of these additional cancers.
5.
True or False: One theory as to why excess body fat contributes to cancer is abnormal or imbalance hormone levels in the body.
6.
True or False: Fat cells play a major role in imbalancing hormone levels within the body.
7.
True or False: The more and more your weight increases the more you are at risk of getting cancer.
8.
What five cancers were previously known to be linked to obesity. (Select all that apply)
9.
True or False: The genes that you are born with only account for five or ten percent of cancers
10.
According to the CDC, the 13 cancers associated with being overweight and obese account for about ____% of all cancers diagnosed in the U.S. in 2014.
11.
___% of all cancers diagnosed in women and _____% are associated with being overweight and obese.
12.
True or False: Black males and American Indian/Alaska Native males had lower incidence rates of cancer (associated with overweight and obesity) than white males.
