Tuesday 6 March 2012

Environmental Pollutant-Perfluorooctanoic Acid-Danish Women-Pregnancy-Obesity

Obesity Link To Environmental Pollutant

The levels of the environmental pollutant perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) that mothers had in their blood during Pregnancy increased the risk of Obesity in their daughters at 20 years of age. The findings come from a recent study of Danish women in which the Norwegian Institute of Public Health participated. In recent decades, there has been a sharp increase in the number of overweight children and adults in both Norway and worldwide. It is suspected that diet and exercise alone cannot explain this large weight increase... read more..

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