Comments on: Chemicals in Plastics Linked to Childhood Obesity

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By: Amy Lee

Amy Lee — Fri, 08 May 2009 11:28:31 +0000

I just read thru the selected results in the study and from what I read it looks like they are attributing the obesity more to the result of no access to healthy food. And BPA and phalates store in fatty tissues, so aren’t overweight people going to have more in their blood regardless? So what comes first? Too many phalates and you are more susceptible to gain weight or is it because you are overweight you have more of these toxins in your blood?

I do not question that these toxins are a huge issue and need to be regulated and even banned. I am just wondering if it is our sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy eating habits that lead to our bodies having more of these endrocine disruptors. So can we really blame industry or should we be looking at our lifestyles and make conscious changes to the way that we live.

By: Terri

Terri — Wed, 06 May 2009 01:24:58 +0000

Actually, a couple of years ago, I heard an interview on NPR with Dr. David Allison, who had just published a study on 10 potential links to obesity aside from diet and exercise, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals were on the list. It’s actually the moment that set me down my current career path! I emailed him about it, because I’m not a scientist and needed a little bit of translating. Here’s what he wrote back to me in 2007 when I asked him what these chemicals were and how we could avoid them:

Endocrine Disrupters (ED) are chemicals that occur in theenvironment typically as the result of industrial processes. They areoften quite stable and therefore persist in the environment for longperiods of time. They can be present in the air, water, and foodsupply. They can also be present in the containers in the foods we eat. Endocrine disruptors can interfere with normal hormonal regulation by mimicking or interfering with the action of hormones normally produced in the human body. In terms of what we can do about them, as a society we can try to identify those ED that may be the most troublesome and seek ways to reduce or eliminate them from our environment and to reduce or eliminate the production of them.

And here is his study, published in 2007:
http://www.nature.com/ijo/journal/v30/n11/full/0803326a.html