It is true that obesity contributes to some types of cancers, but not all. For example, severe obesity is linked to a 7x higher risk for endometrial cancer. Bu

It is true that obesity contributes to some types of cancers, but not all. For example, severe obesity is linked to a 7x higher risk for endometrial cancer. But there's lots of data on cancer and obesity and out of the nearly 2M annual cancer cases in the US per year: "about 37,670 new cancer cases in men (4.7%) and 74,690 new cancer cases in women (9.6%) were due to excess body weight (overweight, obesity, or severe obesity)" So if "looking for fat people" was all you did, you'd miss nearly 95% of cancer cases. Cancer.gov has more data on this page: https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/obesity/obesity-fact-sheet https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/causes-prevention/risk/o...