More evidence chemical poisioning is causing obesity

[undergroundpanther]

The flame retardants, called polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs), have been produced since the 1960s; they’re now found in consumer products like carpeting, upholstered furniture, computers and hair dryers, where they retard the combustibility of these products. It’s estimated that American consumers come into contact with up to 100 products containing PBDEs per day.

While chemical manufacturers say PBDEs can reduce by 45 percent the risk of death and injury by fire, they are an emerging environmental chemical – and an emerging concern, as their impact on the human body becomes documented. Their persistence in the environment has PBDEs compared to now-banned toxins like PCBs and DDT; the use of two types of PBDEs is prohibited in European Union countries.

Carey, Small and Tagliaferro, working in collaboration with clinical assistant professor of animal science Alice Roudabush, D.V.M., and 11 undergraduate and graduate student researchers, are exploring how PBDEs affect fat storage and production. “We know PBDEs are fat-soluble – they dissolve in fat tissue,” says Carey. “What are they doing in the fat as they sit there? Nobody has asked that question yet.”
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070307152555.htm

[KaryninMiami]

1. See that- and here I was blaming my weight gain on what I ate and my age-

What a concept-- computers and carpets could be making us fat.

[undergroundpanther]

5. Diets don't work

Maybe it's because self hate and snake oil are better than hurting Dow Chemicals ,Montsanos,Exxon's ,,ect.profits.. They will not take the economic dream of these selfish pigs away...Uh Huh. That dream of theirs is our nightmare.
My my I notice .. that old "tort reform" shit.. It was passed just in time, because I think the Companies already KNEW they were fucking up people's bodies with their"innovative products", and they new science would soon be on their guilty trail and connect the obvious..one day..Our sick government cabal who push their dreams on us and make us slaves to their fantasies can get the chemically fucked yet oblivious public to agree to anything stupid when it is sold to them with skilled marketing..Nothing is not too evil if it is done to spare these poisoners profits.(the economic dream of a few evil men)

[seriousstan]

2. I think it's the HoHo. Dolly Madison....that bitch!!!!

[loudsue]

3. Ever since Reagan was in office, there are more & more chemicals

that are invading our bodies. Not just carpets, upholstery & such, but also from the food we eat (modified or not, but thoroughly processed) and through the air and water, sodas, etc. Just the hormones in every bite of meat we eat, or every bite of cheese, we're ingesting a whole handful of chemicals.

This year, everyone I know has been sick at some point. Some have been REALLY sick. And I'm not just talking about folks my age .... in their 50's. Two of my friend's daughters have ended up in surgery... women in their 20's... for things that should never have happened to them.

The honey bees are dying off, due to some "parasite" that was probably put on plants to keep other parasites off them. We do not know how many of the things that have been done in the name of "helping farmers" have come home to bite us.

I'm not against science. I'm against science that throws things at the environment without forethought to the consequences.

:kick:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

4. Oh boy....

All this and my dead thyroid too??? Wunnnnderful....:sarcasm:

[undergroundpanther]

6. Unborn babies are

in utero with chemicals in them, the pollution is so bad the mothers body cannot filter out the poisons.
Even shampoo...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4071401.stm
A toxic stew..
http://www.planetark.com/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/31656/story.htm

[undergroundpanther]

7. Dead thyroid?

My roomate was the youngest case of greys disease on record for awhile, his thyroid was so huge you could see it like a tumor under his skin. He had a case of acidic sweat that bleached and than ate through his gym uniform once. My neighborhood of ten houses, 9 of these households had a cancer victim some more than one family member.
Aberdeen Proving ground is pechlorate happy. It pollutes all the water everything out here.Building more rockets to kill abroad while they kill over here.
The military is a HUGE polluter
Read about what the military creates that will kill your thyroid.
http://www.organicconsumers.org/perchlorate.htm
Pollution at home
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-10-14-cover-pollution_x.htm
And abroad
http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0327-21.htm
Ugh!
http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0610/feature4/index.html