If you are an elderly person and is obese are you ,are likely to get illness like cancer than a healthy older person

Question: If you are an elderly person and is obese are you ,are likely to get illness like cancer than a healthy older person
- Keywords:
  elderly,
  illness,
  obese
Asked by 423aged23 to Richard, Peter on 20 Nov 2015.
- Richard Unwin answered on 20 Nov 2015:
  
  Hiya,
  
  That’s a great question and the answer is yes. If you took two groups of people of the same age and one group was obese and the other a healthy weight, you would definitely see more cancers (perhaps 4-5 times more cancers) in the obese group.

Question: If you are an elderly person and is obese are you ,are likely to get illness like cancer than a healthy older person