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Obesogens

Obesogens are as nasty as they sound – obesity generators.  They sound like a secret elite force of fat causing ninjas.  In many ways that is exactly what they are.  These are chemicals commonly found in our industrial environment that trigger our bodies to gain weight regardless of what we avoid eating or how much […]

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Obesogens

Since 1980 the childhood obesity rates for children between the ages of two to nineteen have tripled. For middle-aged-kids, ages six to eleven, this rate has doubled and the teen obesity rate has quadrupled.  We have an obesity epidemic in this country.  This has nothing to do with genetics; the American populace has the same […]