Daily Grist: Chemicals could be making us fat, and more

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At 12:10 PM 3/13/07, you wrote:

>The Weight of the World

>Exposure to chemicals could contribute to obesity, studies find

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>Obesity is largely blamed on calories (too many) and exercise (too

>little), but recent studies suggest that chemical exposure may also pack

>on pounds. And it's tough to diet from so-called " obesogens, " which show

>up in everything from pesticides to food containers. Chemicals found to

>produce more and larger fat cells in mice include waterproof-paint

>ingredient tributyltin; diethylstilbestrol, which was widely prescribed to

>pregnant women from the 1940s to the '60s; and estrogen-like bisphenol A,

>which showed up in 95 percent of people tested by one recent study. BPA

>promotes fat-cell activity in utero, producing " lifetime effects " that

>occur at " phenomenally small levels " of exposure, says biological sciences

>professor Frederick vom Saal; he dismisses the chemical industry's claim

>that BPA poses no health risk as a " blatant lie. " The production and use

>of BPA has quadrupled in the last couple of decades, in roughly the same

>timeline that obesity has noticeably risen. Coincidence? Fat chance.

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>straight to the source: The Washington Post, Elizabeth Grossman, 12 Mar 2007

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>straight to the source: Columbia Tribune, Jacob Luecke, 04 Mar 2007

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>straight to the source: Jurnalo, 18 Feb 2007

 

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