Your Weight and Your Risk of Breast Cancer | Dr. Kristi Funk
The Exam Room by the Physicians Committee
Physicians Committee
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🗓️ 26 October 2021
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
When it comes to breast cancer your weight matters. Just gaining 8 pounds since graduating high school can make a woman 25% more likely to develop breast cancer. And for women who have gained more than 25 pounds the risk is four times higher than that!
Breast cancer surgeon and best-selling author Dr. Kristin Funk discusses why excess fat tempts cancer in your body and outlines the steps you can take to lower your risk when she joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room.
You will also learn how losing weight can exponentially reduce the odds of breast cancer and why a plant-based diet is the best diet for achieving that!
This is the fourth of four special episodes dedicated to breast cancer.
Dr. Funk is helping to lead the Let's Beat Breast Cancer campaign with the Physicians Committee. She encourages women to take the four-week LBBC challenge to improve their health and reduce their risk for breast cancer.
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Let's Beat Breast Cancer 4-Week Challenge
https://letsbeatbreastcancer.org
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Breasts: The Owner's Manual
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Black Women and Breast Cancer Summit
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Dr. Kristi Funk
Summit: https://bit.ly/CncrKckng21
Website: https://pinklotus.com
IG: @drkristifunk
Twitter: @drkristifunk
Facebook: https://bit.ly/DrFunkFB
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Chuck Carroll
IG: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Twitter: @ChuckCarrollWLC
Facebook: http://wghtloss.cc/ChuckFacebook
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Barnard Medical Center
Appointments
202-527-7500
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| 0:00.0 | I want you to think about how much you weighed in high school. |
| 0:03.0 | If you have gained between 8 and 13.9 pounds, simply the weight gain alone has elevated |
| 0:09.5 | breast cancer risk by 25%. |
| 0:12.1 | If you've gained between 14 and 29 pounds, you have a 60% increase. |
| 0:17.5 | And if you've gained more than 25 pounds, you've nearly doubled your risk. |
| 0:23.0 | But let's cue the good news. |
| 0:25.1 | The highest rates of breast cancer happened in those who steadily increased weight over |
| 0:30.7 | a lifetime. |
| 0:31.8 | And the lowest rates were in anyone who just lost weight. |
| 0:40.8 | Welcome to the Exam Room Podcast brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:44.8 | Hi, I am the Weight Loss Champion Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:48.4 | Thank you so very much for raising your health IQ with us in more than 120 countries around |
| 0:53.4 | the world and hundreds of cities in the US. |
| 0:57.0 | So hello to the Exam Roomies listening today in Burdle Beach, South Carolina, Davenport, |
| 1:02.4 | Iowa, and South Bend, Indiana. |
| 1:05.7 | Go Irish! |
| 1:07.3 | We appreciate you helping to make the world a healthier place. |
| 1:11.8 | This is episode 86 of season 4, number 281 overall. |
| 1:17.2 | It's also part 4. |
| 1:19.6 | The final installment of our Let's Beat Breast Cancer series with Dr. Christy Funk this |
| 1:24.8 | year. |
| 1:25.8 | And today, the focus shifts to our weight. |
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