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Obesity leads to the release of cytokines into the bloodstream which impact the metabolism of breast cancer cells, making them more aggressive as a result. Scientists from Helmholtz Zentrum München, Technical University of Munich (TUM), and Heidelberg University Hospital report on this in 'Cell Metabolism'. The team has already been able to halt this mechanism with an antibody treatment.
The number of people with obesity is increasing rapidly worldwide. The German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) recently reported that according to the WHO the number of children and adolescents with obesity increased tenfold between 1975 and 2016. Severe overweight can lead to various health impairments. Besides inducing cardiovascular diseases, obesity for example also promotes the development of cancer and metastases.
The current study elucidates an as yet unknown mechanism making breast cancer more aggressive. The enzyme ACC1* plays a central role in this process," said Dr. Mauricio Berriel Diaz, deputy director of the Institute for Diabetes and Cancer (IDC) at Helmholtz Zentrum München. He led the study together with Stephan Herzig, director of the IDC and professor for Molecular Metabolic Control at TUM and Heidelberg University Hospital. "ACC1 is a key component of fatty acid synthesis," said Berriel Diaz. "However, its function is impaired by the cytokines leptin and TGF-β." The levels of these cytokines are increased particularly in the blood of severely overweight subjects.
(Score: 2) by Kilo110 on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:42PM (14 children)
"You want people to slim down? Well, start charging fat people a lot more money for their health care (e.g., for their insurance). "
That'll just make fat people not get health insurance and they'll end up clogging the ERs. Current law makes hospitals treat those that come into the ER (to a stable condition).
So unless you want to allow hospitals to turn away people and have them dying in the streets, that idea will only make things worse.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:53PM (12 children)
That's just another example of government pushing the problem of obesity onto healthy people.
Those obese people should be given a bill. Heart attack when morbidly obese? The ER should be able to sue the patient for "damages", or the government should garnish wages for [ab]using the ER; refuse to work to pay off your debt? Well, off to the old-fashioned debtor's prison with you; you'll be given 3 small, nutritious square meals each day, and thereby lose your weight. Maybe you'll rethink your life choices, and do a better job on the second try.
Lick my ass, SoylentNews, you utter rubbish.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:56PM (6 children)
You're a terrible human being, will that be cured along with obesity or will you still be a hateful shit?
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:57PM (5 children)
A terrible human being is the one who pushes the responsibility for life's choices onto other human beings!
Who the fuck do you people think you are!
Get your grubby, greasy, fat fingers out of my pockets!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @09:17PM (4 children)
Stupid individualists, we should exile you all, take all your shit and move it into the middle of nowhere. You can create your own ancap paradise, we promise we'll keep our filthy culture away from you as long as you stick to yourselves. Step a toe on to our nation without a visa and enjoy nuclear armageddon. Yes a nuclear blast would likely hurt our surrounding areas, but still it is preferable to letting you idiots back in. You will have to pay extra fees based on your travel habits across public spaces. You will also be charged 10x the cheap universal healthcare rate to better match your ancap expectations, and any amount of time you interact with public servants will be billed to you at 5x the minimum wage. Can't let any ancappers benefit from public services the rest of us pay for!
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @09:24PM (3 children)
What my comment does imply is that you should have enough respect to seek my voluntary agreement to work with you.
Just because you run up to my car and start "washing" its windshield with your filthy sponge and dirty water doesn't mean that you're entitled to compensation for your "services"; it doesn't mean that I'm now somehow on the hook to pay my "fair share".
If anything, the worlds could use fewer of you entitled jerks.
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @09:38PM (2 children)
Haha, you realize you're the massively entitled one right? You want all the benefits of public services without any of the personal costs. Moron.
I guess you've just spent too much of your life focused on the problems in society and have developed your personality around them. Lots of people suffer from the same thing, but it helps to remind yourself that 90% of people are generally decent and good. If you don't believe that statistic then you have strayed WAY too far into cynicism and should just be ignored.
Communities don't survive on individualism for a wide range of reasons. Maybe one day we'll be technologically advanced enough where anyone can fly off and mine some asteroids or build their own colony somewhere. That day is not now, and unless you enjoy being China / Russia's little bitch country then we're stuck in non-voluntary nations.
Oh right, you don't propose total individualism, you want society restructured into "contracts". You're like someone who responds on Yahoo! Answers.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @09:46PM (1 child)
There's no basis for your comment.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday October 24 2017, @10:00PM
Nice projection from the AC who can't muster up actual arguments to obvious problems.
If you're trolling then you're doing a pretty damn good job at remaining serious and sticking to your script!
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 25 2017, @02:13AM (4 children)
Welcome to the down side of using ToR. Form keys are tied to your hashed ip address. When it changes, you have to get another.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 25 2017, @02:32AM (1 child)
It's trash.
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 25 2017, @02:45AM
We eagerly await your pull requests.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 25 2017, @03:33PM (1 child)
So why would it happen on across multiple devices NOT using TOR?
(Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday October 25 2017, @08:41PM
Only reason I can think of off hand is they're also temporary. I'm not sure without looking (looking up formkey and reskey settings is a huge pain) how long they last but I know it's not meant to be hours.
If you can reliably reproduce it, please do so and tell us how.
My rights don't end where your fear begins.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday October 24 2017, @08:58PM
> fat people (...) and they'll end up clogging the ERs
I see what you did there.
The obvious solution is smaller ER doors, or a weight limit on gurneys and access ramps.
It might be too hard to make it illegal to sell or procure food to anyone above 40 lbs/ft, but I'd rather have cops focused on that than pot busts.