Abstract: Obesity is increasing worldwide, and in the United States in particular. It creates a serious health threat to young adults and is now a concern as a global problem throughout the world. The researcher’s has found that the risk for incidence/disease among older adults (≥50 years) increased for the same six obesity-related cancers in younger adults (25-49 years).

Obesity is increasing worldwide, and in the United States in particular. It creates a serious health threat to young adults and is now a concern as a global problem throughout the world. According to the most recent study done on Feb 3, 2019, in Lancet Public Health shows the risk of developing obesity-related cancer is increasing along with the increasing rates of obesity which leading to serious health issue, especially, on younger adult. They are at a higher risk of growing obesity along with obesity-related cancer than older people. However, People may say that obese people deserve being the way they are without thinking that obesity might link to other health factors.

In the New York Times article “Obesity Tied to Higher Cancer Rates in Younger Peoples” by Nicholas Bakalar discuss that obesity has been linked to an increased risk for different types of cancer. The researchers studied the incidence of 30 of the most common types of cancers, including 12 types of cancer that are obesity-related. The researchers obtained incidence data for 30 cancer types among people aged 25-84 years diagnosed from Jan 1, 1995, to Dec 31, 2014, and also, limited their analysis to 25 population-based states of US registries that had data for all study years. The researchers used two types of method: age-period-cohort and birth cohort. The usage of age-period-cohort was to “estimate average annual percentage change in incidence rate by 5-year age group” (25-29 years to 80-84 years in 5-year increments) and to estimate “incidence rate ratios’’ (IRR) the researchers used the “birth cohort’’ (10-year overlapping birth cohorts from 1910–1919 to 1980–1989 in 5-year increments). What researchers have found shocking that there is a substantially lower incidence among younger adults than older people for most cancer. However, the researcher’s hypothesis shows that the small increases in incidence might lead to large annual percent increases in incidence rates. This shows that, as obesity among younger adult increases the rate of  obesity-related cancer would increase too which will lead to higher risk of suffering.

Throughout the study, the result of the research shows that obesity is strongly tied with six of the 12 obesity-related cancers (multiple myeloma, colorectal, uterine, gallbladder, kidney and pancreatic). Using five-year age cohorts, the researcher’s has found that the risk for incidence/disease among older adults (≥50 years) increased for the same six obesity-related cancers in younger adults (25-49 years). From 1995 to 2014 in people ages 25-84 years, there were 14.6 million incident cases for 30 types of cancers. However, the magnitude of the incident for six of the 12 obesity-related cancers increased steeper with younger adults (25-49 years). Although curing cancer is out of our hand, we can control our proper healthy diet and amount of exercising. Ahmedin Jemal, a scientist with the American Cancer Society, discusses that “diet and exercise’’ are the essential cure for reducing obesity. Diet and exercise plays an important role when it come to maintain a healthy life. If an individual follows healthy diet and exercise regularly there is a less chance of getting obesity and obesity related health issues. He also states that “Primary care physicians should regularly assess body weight’’ and that’s how an individual can keep up their health.

However, some young people might still be unaware of the fact that obesity can lead to different types of cancer before reading this article. As a young adult, it’s understandable that obesity is a serious health threat in this generation. However, it’s always not obvious to think that it is an individual’s fault that they are becoming obese by their own interest. There is so many research that shows that obesity during pregnancy can also affect a child’s health later in life. Therefore, it also can be the mother’s fault that they didn’t take good care of themselves while pregnant which caused their child of becoming obese or overweight over time that leads them to one of six obesity-related cancer. It’s a true fact that “diet and exercise” are essential in reducing obesity but, in addition, income could also explain what lead to this outcome for young adults. Because of these and other safety concern, children and adults, are, more likely to stay indoors and engage in watching TV or playing video games, which doesn’t allow them to go outdoors for exercising or engaging in different sports. So, lifestyle factors can also contribute to the increasing burden of obesity-related cancers in young adults. However, an individual should be concern about their health factors and a mother shouldn’t become obese during her pregnancy which increases the risk of life-long health problems in children on their adult age. Moreover, the researcher’s should have included all other states of the US and other groups of age people (12-24 years) in this study. So, they could justify what causes children to become obese during early young age which leads them to serious health issue later on their life.

Overall, this article should create awareness amongst all young adults and finding effects of obesity would further strengthen the importance of promoting exercising and to keep up the healthy diet, in order to keep oneself away from six of the obesity-related cancers. As research shows that incidence among younger adult increasing day by day, it will lead to global health concern unless the younger adult take responsibility to keep up their healthy diet and exercise regularly. If younger adult doesn’t keep up healthy lifestyles, the future of the world will end up being deemed.