Or are there any actual links to being obese or overweight that are connected with our environment? it would seem that a new study that was done in Spain has thrown up some very interesting issues as far as children and the actual environment they are brought up in.

It argues that the actual pollutional environment that the child is actually brought up in as regards to chemicals, which it gets contaminated with whilst in the womb. Quite a lot of adults and children in the United Kingdom are now obese.

And the world over there are 300 million obese people worldwide, and the explanation that we get over and over again is that it’s merely down to the amount of calories that we are consuming, and also a lack of exercise.

People the world over are now beginning to question whether, or not it is actually the case of the latter which is actually causing the problem as a whole, for a long time now it has been known that some people genetically do have slower metabolisms than others do.

The new study which was done in Barcelona is now suggesting that, there may be other causes to the worldwide epidemic of obesity which shows no sign of decline, during the study some levels of a particular pesticide were measured namely hexachlorobenzene, 403 children were actually tested for the levels of this particular pesticide.

The actual ones that had large levels of the particular toxin were far more likely to become obese later on in life, this particular pesticide has now been banned from use, but still can get into the environment and thus find it’s way into food.

The overall idea of the study was to not blame one particular pesticide, per se but just to prove that there was an actual course in effect namely that this particular pesticide did in fact cause problems. You have to face up to facts here having crops sprayed with pesticides, means that you are putting foreign substances into your body.

None of us really actually know the amount of concentration that is used when spraying crops, the mere fact stands that we are putting something into our body that it doesn’t need.

Other experiments which have been conducted on animals, that have been fed with particular pollutants, have also been found to produce offspring that become obese later on, when they have started to grow.

In the evidence that was found in the Spanish study, HCB as it is known as, they couldn’t actually find a particular reason as to why the mother’s offspring started to become obese, they put it down to the fact that the pesticide could have made the mother become diabetic.

And this was the overall cause of the problem, a well-known expert in these areas, namely Dr Myers who is a well-known scientist at, the Environmental Health Service’s in the USA, says that although these findings are very interesting and there does seem to be some sort of link.

From what has been found by all of the studies he say’s that there could be other explanations for these particular problems which have been occurring with mothers and their offspring, one of the toxins produces obesogens which tend to build up in pregnant mothers and can alter cell structure and turn things on and off, such as stem cells. If stem cells are turned off this in turn will turn stem cells into fat cells.

So why are we actually still getting fatter The same things keep coming round and round again we tend to eat more calories than we need, hence we gain weight, eating up a poor diet high in sugar and saturated fat.

However now scientists are beginning to overturn this particular notion and argue ar that there may be other factors that are causing our ever-increasing obesity epidemic, the Independent on Sunday last week stated that, as people there has been no actual downturn in the amount of physical activity that we did from now, and from the year 1980.

But obesity has still tended to skyrocket out of control and shows no signs of stopping either, genetic factors also are being thrown out the window as well, and other things are now being looked into as to what is causing our ever overweight growing population.

Could it be due to some of the other factors it’s been stated that either on the way to overweight babies, can still become obese later on in life, and mothers who have their babies later on in life are more likely to have obese babies.

Having a lack of sleep you are far more likely to gain weight this applies in adults and both children,we burn more calories.

When we are colder we burn more calories, than if we are warmer, due to the fact of how efficient modern heating systems are whether, it be gas electric or modern central heating, we are far less likely to want to go outside and go for a walk or do some kind of exercise, when we can stay inside and keep warm. Lots of prescription drugs these days can cause weight gain.

For all we know there could be many other contributing factors as to why we have they ever increasing population of overweight obese adults, I dare say that we now even just beginning to scratch the surface of what is causing this rise in obesity rates the world over.

Because wa are spoonfed the same information over and over again we tend to think that that must be the overall cause and that is it, nothing else could be causing is to become overweight apart from what we are eating, some people no matter what they do, can’t lose weight.

They have to resort to having things like stomach tucks or having a gastric bypass operation, so what we have here is some alternative reasons as to why they may be other factors involving becoming obese rather than the normal ones we hear over and over again.

It would be interesting to get some feedback about this particular issue in hand and see what other people think please let me know if you think that there are other factors, which are keeping people overweight. Or are we simply becoming genetic mutants by the foods that we are eating, and the enviroment with which we are bought up in.

Source http://www.independent.co.uk

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