- Researchers evaluated data on almost 500,000 men and women who answered questions about their physical activity, body weight, and height.
- Eight years later, 480 of the study subjects had developed glioma brain tumors.
- Those who were obese as teenagers were three or four times more likely to develop such tumors, and physical activity during adolescence was determined to be a protection against these cancers.
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