Researchers Link Chemicals to Obesity in Adulthood
15 05 2008I read an article this morning about common chemicals that are consumed during pregnancy leading to obesity as an adult. One of the chemicals has been found in common plastic water bottles; a movement has recently begun to move people away from plastic water bottles to steel bottles due to Bisphenol A.
I just thought this was an interesting article and I’m still thinking about what it means. Obviously, to me, it means that obesity is not only genetic and that there are environmental factors that trigger the propensity to hold on to weight.
In other news, I got cleared to bike again (no running yet)! I rode my bike around campus yesterday and powered my way up a pretty steep hill, but was busted by the time I got to the top. I have a month’s worth of training to catch up on 
Very interesting. But I can’t help also thinking about how all the new research coming out keeps suggesting that just about everything causes cancer- and you have to wonder how much of it just happens to be a correlation and how much of it really IS a major contributing factor. Science is tricky!
Yep, science is indeed tricky! You have to consider where the study comes from, who is funding it, etc. in order to figure out if there are really ulterior motives or if this stuff is really true! I say we eat like our ancestors did and just avoid all this modern “food” and products