{"id":1196,"date":"2012-01-12T15:12:05","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T19:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/?p=1196"},"modified":"2012-01-12T15:12:05","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T19:12:05","slug":"programmed-to-be-fat-everyday-chemicals-linked-to-obesity-and-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/2012\/01\/12\/programmed-to-be-fat-everyday-chemicals-linked-to-obesity-and-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Programmed to be fat: everyday chemicals linked to obesity and diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>From <em>The Ecologist\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><\/em><a style=\"text-align: center;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theecologist.org\/News\/news_analysis\/1191048\/programmed_to_be_fat_everyday_chemicals_linked_to_obesity_and_diabetes.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thiscontemplativelife.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/148849.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chemicals found in plastics, cosmetics and industry may be altering cells in our bodies, making us more likely to get fat and develop diabetes<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re doing what we\u2019re supposed to be doing yet we are getting fatter and fatter<\/p>\n<p>Many of the factors behind the rising rates of obesity are now well-known: diet, exercise and lifestyle.<\/p>\n<p>But one, the environmental chemicals we are exposed to on a daily basis through plastics, food packaging, pesticides and cosmetics, is hardly discussed at all.<\/p>\n<p>Although still an under-researched area, more and more studies are finding that everyday chemicals can cause obesity.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018When animals are exposed prenatally to these chemicals, their metabolism is reprogrammed so that even if they are never exposed again in their lives, they gain weight,\u2019 says Bruce Blumberg, from the University of California.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Blumberg is one of a growing number of researchers in the US who are looking at how everyday chemicals can trigger increases in body fat.<\/p>\n<p>He has even coined a word \u2018obesogens\u2019 to describe the chemicals found to promote dramatic weight gain.<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theecologist.org\/News\/news_analysis\/1191048\/programmed_to_be_fat_everyday_chemicals_linked_to_obesity_and_diabetes.html\">Programmed to be fat: everyday chemicals linked to obesity and diabetes &#8211; The Ecologist<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Ecologist\u00a0 Chemicals found in plastics, cosmetics and industry may be altering cells in our bodies, making us more likely to get fat and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,9],"tags":[143,204,353,385,487],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thiscontemplativelife.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}