Obesity responsible for 100,000 cancer cases annually-CNN

And fast/junk/convenience/comfort foods are the main reasons for obesity.
Avoidence of irregular eating habits, eating snacks whenver one feels like are other major causes of obesity.
Why can’t we avoid it?
Story:
CNN) — More than 100,000 cases of cancer each year are caused by excess body fat, according to a report released Thursday in Washington.

Researchers with the American Institute for Cancer Research looked at seven cancers with known links to obesity and calculated actual case counts that were likely to have been caused by obesity.

Specifically, the report says that 49 percent of endometrial cancers are caused by excess body fat. That number is followed by 35 percent of esophageal cancer cases; 28 percent of pancreatic cancer cases; 24 percent of kidney cancer cases; 21 percent of gallbladder cancer cases; 17 percent of breast cancer cases; and 9 percent of colorectal cancer cases.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/11/05/obesity.cancer.link/index.html

Jane Kennedy says no to comfort food-Courier mail.

Self explanatory.
Story:
LAST year comedian and mother of five Jane Kennedy was working long hours on the television show The Hollowmen and she stacked on 7kg with unhealthy eating and little exercise.

Then at 10pm one day in July last year Kennedy had an epiphany. She realised she needed a dramatic change to her approach to food. She had come home tired and hungry and gave in to her craving for a rich, creamy risotto with garlic bread.

“Then I felt full and terrible,” she says. “It was then I thought comfort food should be called discomfort food. The term comfort food should be banned.
http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,26259002-5003426,00.html