Keeping your New Year’s resolution to lose weight could dramatically reduce future cases of cancer

Reducing the number of overweight and obese Canadians by 50 per cent could potentially prevent a cumulative 59,829 cases of cancer by 2042, according to University of Calgary researcher Darren Brenner, PhD, who is part of a collaborative group from multiple institutions across Canada working together on the Canadian Population Attributable Risk of Cancer Project (ComPARe). “Our…