Beyond the blueprint

re: Beyond the blueprint

David — Tue, 05 May 2009 20:12:19 GMT

"WDDTY Deputy Editor Joanna Evans has uncovered a wealth of evidence showing that environmental exposure to pollutants—pesticides, plastics, even tobacco smoke—may be responsible for widespread obesity."

......This is probably the most ridiculous of all the excuses for obesity I've yet heard!!

PLEASE.....remember, there are NO cases of obesity in any situation, prison camp, or geographic area, where food is limited in availability....as ever, look at the real world for the logical answers.

Huge portions, vast 'pond sized' buckets of coffee, alcohol,soft drinks etc. and

man made chemical junk instead of sensible portions of real food, coupled with sedentary life styles, are to blame.

Whatever your particular set of circumstances are, if you consume more calories than you burn...you get fatter. Not rocket science...

and remember....you can't get fat on fresh air!

re: Beyond the blueprint

Kathryn — Tue, 12 May 2009 12:36:55 GMT

People are still trying put blame on something for obesity.. reality & truth is the amount and type of food one stuffs in their face is the cause of it..and lack of excersize....nothing else.

re: Beyond the blueprint

sue.ramsey1@btopenworld.com — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:10:02 GMT

If you bother to look at the chemistry of hormone production, thyroid function and adrenal activity you will understand that the propensity to put on weight, or the reduced ability to lose it, is managed by this process. Any imbalance will affect this. Environmental factors affect this balance, from the detergent on your clothes to the air that you breathe. These factors place a burden on your system, and for some people this causes them to gain weight. For others it causes cancer, asthma or eczema. Not all fat people stuff their faces - though it's a popular viewpoint amongst the non-fat. It's important to remember that you're affected by these environmental factors even if you're thin. PMS is one example of this - it just manifests itself in a different way.

re: Beyond the blueprint

harradine — Wed, 13 May 2009 16:30:12 GMT

Not all fat people stuff their faces and there are genetic factors that influence the risk of obesity.

The evidence emerging now that environmental factors such as severe malnutrition or prental exposure to maternal obesity is very interesting stuff indeed. Work of KCL is suggesting that being exposed to your mothers obesity while in the womb can influence gene transcription in later life and increase the risk of obesity. So quite worrying.

What the research doesn't show is that pesticides, smoking, etc can increase this risk. Can we see some of this evidence?

re: Beyond the blueprint

will.g — Mon, 18 May 2009 12:30:01 GMT

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re: Beyond the blueprint

harradine — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:29:59 GMT

once again, an article claiming evidence but a notable dearth of said...

re: Beyond the blueprint

harradine — Sat, 23 May 2009 23:40:07 GMT

once again, an article claiming evidence but a notable dearth of said...