Over the last forty years in the United States, liver cancer diagnoses have tripled and deaths have more than doubled. There is little mystery as to why this is so: liver cancer is one of the obesity-related cancers, with obese and overweight individuals suffering almost double the risk compared to healthy-weight individuals.10 Fatty liver disease can cause chronic inflammation, leading to cirrhosis and liver cancer. Pancreatic cancer, also an obesity-related cancer, is increasing in incidence, by about 1 percent per year from 2006 to 2015.
