We can clearly conclude that adult overweight and obesity cause cancer, ... and increasing rates of obesity in the US are continuing to drive up the burden of these cancers.

The overweight have a significantly higher risk of diabetes, gallstones, hypertension, and heart disease, ... All have costs and an impact on the quality of life that get ignored if we focus only on mortality.

For nearly 20 years, we have documented the huge impact that diabetes has on the health care system, from kidney failure to dialysis and so on.