Overweight can bring to cancer

This year World Day for Combating Cancer, which mark the February 4, was devoted to the problem of obesity in children as a prerequisite for malignancy in later life. The campaign motto is "I love my healthy active childhood" 2009 is the second year of four of the International Union plan to combat cancer, "Children today are the world tomorrow."
According to the World Health Organization about 1 billion people worldwide are overweight, while nearly 300 million of them it is a medical condition. In the 30-45 million children aged between 5 and 17 years obesity has affection. Bulgaria is one of the first places in obesity in children. One fifth of them are overweight. The main reason for the statistic is sadly unhealthy way of eating and high calories menu. Other culprits are sedentary lifestyles that lead our children, their low motor activity and lack of time and their desire for sport. February 4 on the occasion of the Association of patients with malignancy arrange a meeting with the Minister of Health Dr. Evgenii Zhelev. The aim was to promote the implementation of antirakovata program through the initiation of screening for the three most common and relatively easy to detect and treat locations, breast cancer, a colon and cervical.