Study blames obesity epidemic on rising CO2 levels

[JackLuis]

The question of whether carbon dioxide should be considered a pollutant under the Clean Air Act and regulated by the Environmental Protection Agency has been a political football for the past decade.

In 1998, the Clinton administration decided that it was, but in 2003, the Bush administration reversed this policy. And in 2007, the Supreme Court split things down the middle, ruling that the EPA had the authority to regulate emissions of greenhouse gases but was possibly not required to do so.

All of that took place within the context of the contentious argument over global warming. But now there is a new charge against carbon dioxide that may strike more deeply at the heart of American public opinion: The claim that it promotes obesity.

What a Gas!

 

[dr_mabeuse]

Did he ever consider the possibility that higher CO2 levels on the east coast might also be the result of a more sedentary life-style?

Did he run his human experiment long enough to make sure that there was real statistical dose-response relationship between inspired CO2 and overeating? Any correlation between inspired CO2 and any other physiological metric?

We know the effects of higher CO2 levels in the blood. It makes your blood more acidic and makes you yawn and hyperventilate. But the blood is strongly buffered to keep the pH in a narrow range, and should be easily able to handle the rising atmospheric CO2 levels. I don't know of any study that suggests that blood has gotten more acidic over the past 100-150 years.

Something's rotten in Denmark.

Or maybe it's the Haagen Daaz.

 

[Pure]

obesity and endocrine disrupting chemicals

There is lots of material on this topic, esp. lately, bisphenol-A.

http://www.endo-society.org/journals/scientificstatements/upload/edc_scientific_statement.pdf

In a documentary on tv a couple nights ago, the issue of unexplained weight gains in a number of species was looked at. The effects were replicated with microgram doses of some chemicals.


http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111026094203.htm

Environmental Toxin Bisphenol A (BPA) Can Affect Newborn Brain, Mouse Study Shows

ScienceDaily (Oct. 26, 2011) — Newborn mice that are exposed to bisphenol A develop changes in their spontaneous behavior and evince poorer adaptation to new environments, as well hyperactivity as young adults, according to researchers at Uppsala University. Their study also revealed that one of the brain's most important signal systems, the cholinergic signal system, is affected by bisphenol A and that the effect persisted into adulthood.

Our environment contains a number of pollutants, including bisphenol A, which is used in plastics in a number of different applications. When plastic products are used, bisphenol A can leak out, which is especially problematic as it is used in baby bottles, tin cans, plastic containers, plastic mugs, which are used by people of all ages. Both in Sweden and globally, bisphenol A is widely used, and the substance has been found in human placentas, fetuses, and breast milk.

In recent years measurable amounts of bisphenol have been found in dust from regular homes, but opinion differs regarding any negative effects of bisphenol A, and risk

 

[TE999]

Yet another excuse for obesity.

People are fat because nobody in the Western world has to work hard to provide for their families or themselves, witnessed by the fact that obesity's not a problem in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The Western world population, in the main, is sedentary, eats more empty calories, uses their brains not their muscles to work and have all their needs satisfied by machinery. In evolutionary terms, our bodies stopped evolving when Homo Sapiens emerged as the dominant human species. We're still equipped to store fat in the good times when food is plentiful against the lean times when it isn't. There are relatively no lean times in the Western world, so our bodies continue to store fat and we never burn it off.

Diet and exercise are the key; all else is so much bullshit.

 

[lovecraft68]

Yet another excuse for obesity.

People are fat because nobody in the Western world has to work hard to provide for their families or themselves, witnessed by the fact that obesity's not a problem in Africa, the Middle East and Asia.

The Western world population, in the main, is sedentary, eats more empty calories, uses their brains not their muscles to work and have all their needs satisfied by machinery. In evolutionary terms, our bodies stopped evolving when Homo Sapiens emerged as the dominant human species. We're still equipped to store fat in the good times when food is plentiful against the lean times when it isn't. There are relatively no lean times in the Western world, so our bodies continue to store fat and we never burn it off.

Diet and exercise are the key; all else is so much bullshit.

How interesting! I think you should go explain this to the woman my wife works for who hosts OA meetings twice a week.

Did you know that food can be an addiction and has nothing to do with laziness of poor dietary habits?

Picture being an alcoholic, how do you avoid drinking? stay away from bars, liquor stores, the wrong crowd etc....

Now you're a food addict so you.... have to eat three times a day. These people dance with the devil three times a day all their lives and they win some and lose some and there is a lot of pain involved.

Diet and exercise are the key for us as we are "normal' in that way, but others it is not that cut and dried.

My wife was over four hundred pounds 2 years before I met her. She was in a childrens psychiatric ward when she was ten and was on suicide watch at 16 all over food addiction.

She is well under two hundred pounds now, but still battles and goes to two meetings a week and has a food sponsor that she has to commit daily to what she is going to eat and how much.

I have seen her in tears because she can't eat something she wants and when she is off the wagon I find snickers bars hidden around the house the way a drunk would hide a bottle.

The shit is real and if you haven't ever seen it you need to take your diet and exercise and shove it up your ignorant ass.

She also has three degrees from two of the best schools in New England, runs a doctors office that helps others like her, has her own business and is a volunteer councilor at a home for abused women. She puts in maybe 70 hours a week between every thing and is far from lazy or complacent.

On my end to refute your western world generalization, that we're all weak and soft. I'm turning 44 next month and at last check was at 8% body fat. Guess I didn't get the memo we're all lazy.

so replace shove it up your ignorant ass with a good old fashioned go fuck yourself.

 

[TxRad]

Sounds like a lot of hot air and someone angling for a grant.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

In the '70's we were told that fat in our food was bad. So we tried low-fat eating for thirty years and obesity became an international obsession. Turns out that fat satisfies your appetite much better than sweets or highly processed carbohydrates. But to make food (especially processed, ready-to-eat food) palatable, manufacturers had to put more corn syrup (sugar!) in. The closer you are to where your food comes from (the dirt!) the better it is for you. Whole grains, lots of veggies, plenty of meat/fish/poultry and the occasional log full of fresh ants and you'll be fine.

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