It’s easy to overlook weight loss and just consider it a good thing. As a society, we glorify thinness, which means many people don’t consider weight loss a bad enough change to see a doctor, instead viewing it as a blessing.
But this supposedly positive change is actually a very common symptom for colon cancer, as well as many other kinds of cancers. Weight loss is a fairly reliable science, so if you’re losing weight without changing up your diet or adding to physical activity, what you are experiencing is unexplained weight loss.
It’s easy to overlook weight loss and just consider it a good thing. As a society, we glorify thinness, which means many people don’t consider weight loss a bad enough change to see a doctor, instead viewing it as a blessing.
In almost all cases, unexplained weight loss is dangerous and typically points to something wrong within the body.
- Cancer, including colon cancer, uses up a lot of the energy within the body.
- This means that the immune system and the cancer cells are both burning fuel quickly as the former tries to fight the cancer and the latter tries to grow more.
- In addition, some cancer cells release certain chemicals that alter the body’s food processing manner.
Large colon tumors can also block the colon, changing your bowel habits. This is another reason for weight loss. The fact that many tumors cause appetite loss and increase the metabolism is even more reason to be nervous if you’re losing too much weight at once.
Get a full body check up at-least once a year. If you are of african decent, have cases of colon cancer in family history then you are right to be worried.
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