Stomach hurting? Heartburn acting up? Bowel movement regularity seems a bit off? Well if you’ve been wondering where to go to find all the gastrointestinal information you might possibly need, you can look no further. Right here on our newly designed Disease Information page and Medical Services page we discuss, in detail, a variety of gastrointestinal ailments and procedures.
A report from the Daily Mail in London says that added inches to a “healthy” waist measurement can drastically increase the risk of colorectal cancer. This may seem sensational, and in some ways it is, but it does give fair warning to the risk involved when eating heavily processed foods and not accounting for the negative effects they can have on your body.
According to the article, roughly 38,000 cases of colon cancer are recorded a year, and it checks in as the second highest killer among cancers in the UK. Assuredly, those figures are exponentially higher in the vastly more populated United States.
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