TopNews New Zealand, 3 May 2011
This is a wakeup call for size-zero people. As per a recent study by the team of Singapore Chinese Health, underweight people are under the danger zone of colon cancer.
The study reported that under the category of body-mass index (BMI) of 21.5 to 24.4, 89 out of 100,000 were diagnosed with colon cancer, while under BMIs of 18.5 to 21.4 and 24.5 to 27.4, number of infected people shoots to 103. Full story