A recent study done by researchers from the University of Oxford claimed that heavyweight people are more prone to have breast cancer. UK’s Cancer Research centre funded the study and British Journal of Cancer made the study public.

The study biographers also claimed that heavy smoking and drinking also increase the cancer risks because the relationship between higher BMI and higher levels of oestrogen was not a new phenomenon as a result of which postmenopausal women increased their cancer jeopardy.

To look at how their hormone levels related to factors such as their age, intake of alcohol and cigarettes and weight, the researchers tracked 6,000 women, who did not suffered from the cancer.

They concluded that as compared to slim women, the hormone levels, chiefly the oestrogen hormones, were higher in the overweight women.

They further concluded that women who daily drunk more units of alcohol, or who smoked more cigarettes, to a great extent, increase their cancer risks because their hormone levels were very high.

Dr. Jacquie Lavin Slimming World spokesperson accounted, “In terms of weight loss motivations, four out of five overweight people cite improving their health as a reason for slimming down - far ahead of aesthetic motives”.