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How Does Obesity Cause Cancer?

  • October 17, 2004

A German physician was awarded a Nobel prize in 1931 for determining that sugar feeds cancer. Now contemporary researchers have determined some of the molecular mechanisms for this. Harvard University researchers have discovered a new pathway that shows how obesity causes stress in a system of cellular membranes called endoplasmic reticulum (ER), which in turn causes the endoplasmic reticulum to suppress the signals of insulin receptors, which then leads to insulin resistance. The...