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Obese people are at higher risk of multiple types of cancer, but why? One explanation could be that obesity enhances the production of pro-inflammatory, and carcinogenic, bile acids by gut microorganisms. See Letter p.97

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Figure 1: How obesity increases cancer risk.

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  1. *This article and the paper under discussion4 were published online on 26 June 2013.

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  1. Suzanne Devkota is at the Joslin Diabetes Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA.,
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  2. Peter. J. Turnbaugh is at the FAS Center for Systems Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA.,
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Devkota, S., Turnbaugh, P. An acidic link.Nature 499, 37–38 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12404

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