Pesticides on Produce Now Tied to Obesity

On May 11, the White House announced it was targeting a new threat to America’s health and security. It wasn’t some rogue nation or terrorist organization, or a new-found disease or environmental threat. It was a class of chemicals that are making Americans fat. They’re called endocrine disrupting chemicals, or EDCs. And chances are you’re eating or drinking them right now.

According to a very recent report posted on Yahoo by the Environmental Health Perspectives suggests that exposure to pesticides in food, especially the obesity-causing pesticides, which nine of the ten most common pesticides are, is the reason why so many Americans can't lose weight. In the report they list endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a possible reason for increased obesity and describe how scientists have coined a new term for these chemicals — "obesogens" — because they "may promote weight gain and obesity."

What does this mean for you? It means that weight gain is not just about calories-in versus calories-out.

No, America’s obesity crisis can’t entirely be blamed on too much fast food and too little exercise. We have to consider a third factor: the obesogens. They’re synthetic compounds, and many of these chemicals work by mimicking estrogen — the very hormone that doctors DON’T want women taking anymore (as a large clinical trial linked hormone therapy to increased risk of heart disease, breast cancer, stroke, blood clots and abnormal mammograms).



Reference: by The Staff at wowOwow, on Wed Jul 7, 2010 7:24am PDT. Posted on "Shine from Yahoo".

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