Obesity and the environment aims at the different environmental factors that have been determined by researchers to cause and perpetuate obesity.
Studies have shown that they are prevalent in both people and animals. There have been no links between this obesity trend and diet and exercise. According to Professor Robert H. Lustig from the University of California, San Francisco, “[E] ven those at the lower end of the body mass index (BMI) curve are gaining weight. trigger. ” The theory of environmental obesogens offers a different causal facet to obesity – that lifetime exposure to xenobiotic chemicals can change the body’s metabolic system. Chemical obesogens are molecules that do not properly regulate lipid metabolism in the body and should therefore promote obesity. Data is scarce, but some in-vitro studies have found this model to be an accurate predictor of future obesity. A study suggests that smoking before and during pregnancy, for example, increases the risk of obesity in children of school age. Many chemicals that are known or suspected to be obesogens are endocrine disruptors. These obesogens are present in common-use products. In a University at Albany, State University of New York study, organotins were found in a handbag designer, vinyl blinds, wallpaper, tile, and vacuum cleaner dust collected from 20 houses. Phthalates, which have been linked to obesity, are present in many other categories, such as laundry products, and personal care products. Bisphenol A (BPA), is a known environmental obesogen but makes up longer fat cells larger. Effects of obesogens in infants and children – glucose intolerance and more abdominal fat. The study concludes that obesogens change an individual’s metabolic set points for gaining weight. What little research has been conducted on the relationship between chemical exposure and body mass indexes to obesogens as a contributor to the obesity epidemic. Some endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) belong to this class of compounds. Bruce Blumberg, a professor of developmental and cell biology at UC Irvine, has found compelling evidence that exposure to the chemical Tributyltin (TBT), a compound used in pesticides, can trigger fat cell creation. As several cases have confirmed, Many farm workers in America have been unknowingly unknowingly working in fields that have been recently sprayed with TBT and other dangerous chemicals. Among the wide variety of health risks, the workers may bear a disproportionate risk of exposure to such obesogens. The law of the land and the law of the land, the law of the land and the law of the land, to the livelihood of many farm workers. Read More…