Are Chemicals Making Us Fat?

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.truth-out.org/obesitydiabetes-epidemic-rise-obesogens/1309380259

The global obesity/diabetes epidemic is receiving wide-spread attention like the June 26 article in The Washington Post by David Brown. One-fourth of our national health care bill of $2.3 trillion is linked to the treatment of diabetes and its complications. Average American life expectancy is now dropping because of this disease complex. Even children are being recommended for gastric bypass.

Fingers everywhere are pointing at the usual suspects: too much junk food and lack of exercise. But there is much more to the story than a recent, contagious lack of discipline among the masses.

A growing body of evidence in animals and humans suggests that many man-made chemicals contaminating our environment mimic some of the body's own hormones like testosterone and estrogen. Researchers have called these chemicals endocrine disruptors because they wreak havoc with endocrine organs like the thyroid, pancreas, testes and ovaries that depend on hormones to develop and function properly. But a new, more relevant term for these chemicals has emerged. They are now also called obesogens.

Exposure to tiny amounts of obesogens during embryonic development has startling effects on animals, resulting in obesity, infertility, feminization of male species, ambiguous sexual characteristics and high death rates.

More at the link --

[AngryAmish]

1. Considering everything we eat and drink is a chemical, then the answer is yes.

[Johonny]

2. Thats why I only eat electrons

[robcon]

3. I think protons are tastier.

n/t

[ProfessorGAC]

4. How Do You Get Them Onto Your Fork?

They're so little and all!
GAC

[AngryAmish]

5. Dammit, man, they ARE the fork!

thinkaboutit

[Johonny]

8. :)

[ProfessorGAC]

9. Sorry, But No

There's those pesky protons and neutrons in the fork. Now, there's all those extra calories you were trying to avoid.
GAC

[jberryhill]

11. You can dislodge them by microwaving the fork

Ever put metal in your microwave?

The other method is to use the photoelectric effect.

Once you get over the surface energy, releasing the electron gas from the metal matrix is simple.

I get a real charge out of it.

[ProfessorGAC]

13. LOL!

Good catch! Gave me a chuckle.
GAC

[jberryhill]

14. It's got electrolytes! It's what plants crave!

[formercia]

6. Some people take them on purpose, but most of us are Collateral Damage

http://www.anabolicsmall.com/Implus.html

Implus is a cattle steroid implants that bodybuilders have utilized in the attempt to get muscle building steroids. Implus comes in a rotary cartridge that contains 20 pellets per cartridge with 5 cartridges in a box. Each pellet is 3" in length and contains 200 mgs. of testosterone propionate as well as 20 mgs. of estradiol benzoate. The estradiol is added to the product to increase size in cattle. Implus is a drug intended for veterinarian use in cattle to increase weight gain and feed efficiency. Implus is identical to Syno-H except that there are twice the amount of pellets in one cartridge. This is probable due to the fact that most people are only aware of Finaplix and Syno' as a rule.

The unfortunate side to using this for athletic gains is that it contains estradiol which will cause big time gyno if it is left in the product and used as is. As far as side effects go, the estradiol from the pellets is going to give you gyno, which you don't want to have. These are also not the most sanitary things either. Keep in mind that these were made for animals and there is not near the precautions taken when making these as there is with medicine. The other side effects are the same as with testosterone propionate - may cause stomach upset, headache, and acne. Other side effects may include increased hair growth on the face and body, male pattern baldness, change in sex drive, anxiety, depression and pain or inflammation at the injection site. Males may experience enlargement of the breasts. In women this may cause menstrual irregularities, hoarseness, deepening of the voice, clitoral enlargement, increased facial hair growth, acne or thinning of hair. .

[truth2power]

7. High fructose corn syrup. n/t

[jtown1123]

10. Nope, it's sugar.

[libodem]

12. body handles it differently

Doesn't recognize it as sugar so it doesn't secret insulin in response. It free floats the blood stream until it is laid down as abdominal fat.

[Octafish]

15. Manmade chemicals cause endocrine disruption...

...why wouldn't they also mess with our metabolism?
Or with everything else, for that matter or mind?

[Scout]

16. no, no, no, Octafish!

you must get with the program! our bodies are allowed to be different in many, many, ways: height, eye color, hair color, allergies, temperament, intelligence, but we all have the EXACT SAME METABOLISM!!!

fat people are ONLY fat because they stuff their fat faces with junk food constantly and never move from in front of the tv!!!!!

:sarcasm: but i know you know that :-)

[bvar22]

17. I don't know for sure,

but my Wife and I are worried enough about the contaminated Factory Food Production, Processing, Packaging, & Distribution System in the USA that we moved to The Woods and started producing our own in 2006.

So far, so good,
and I've lost 20 pounds
eating mostly fresh, organic, unprocessed,
no preservatives, no additives, no-coloring, no fillers,
no stabilizers, no shelf life extenders, no fructose,
non-packaged food.