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KU Cancer Center Works to Reduce Obesity Among Rural Residents

Salina resident Janis Wearing weighs in with Shari Sutton at Salina Family Health Care. (Photo by Bryan Thompson)
Salina resident Janis Wearing weighs in with Shari Sutton at Salina Family Health Care. (Photo by Bryan Thompson)

The recent news that Kansas is now the seventh-fattest state in the nation points toward a future of increased health problems, including cancer. In fact, as smoking rates decline and obesity rates rise, obesity is poised to overtake tobacco as the leading preventable cause of cancer. That’s why the University of Kansas Cancer Center is highlighting a weight control research study as part of its effort to win federal designation as a Comprehensive Cancer Center. Heartland Health Monitor’s Bryan Thompson reports.


Bryan Thompson is a reporter for the KHI News Service in Topeka and a contributor to Heartland Health Monitor, a consortium of news outlets dedicated to covering health and health issues in Kansas and Missouri. 

 

Bryan Thompson has been KPR's Health Reporter since 2000. He's a lifelong Kansan, and a graduate of Wichita State University. He's been involved in radio news longer than he'd care to admit, serving as news director at stations in El Dorado, Liberal, and Salina before joining KPR. He and his wife, Cindy, are the parents of six outstanding children--one of whom now looks down on them from above. In his spare time, Bryan enjoys music and sports.