Perfluorinated pollutants could contribute to the global obesity epidemic

2023-04-23T20:47:55.436Z

Present everywhere, these compounds seem to promote weight gain by disrupting the metabolism. Even recently, a study conducted among 34,000 French people showed that nearly half of them consider obesity to be a “lack of willpower”. However, the more time passes, the more the complexity of this disease, metabolic and multifactorial, is revealed and renders this cliché obsolete. Thus, alongside known factors such as physical inactivity and dietary imbalance, the consequences on weight gain o

Even recently, a study conducted among 34,000 French people showed that nearly half of them consider obesity to be a “lack of willpower”.

However, the more time passes, the more the complexity of this disease, metabolic and multifactorial, is revealed and renders this cliché obsolete.

Thus, alongside known factors such as physical inactivity and dietary imbalance, the consequences on weight gain of exposure to "eternal pollutants" emerge quite clearly from the work carried out by the team of Philippe Grandjean, researcher in environmental medicine at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense.

This study has just been published in the journal

Obesity

The term "eternal pollutants" refers to perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl compounds (Pfas), ie nearly 4,000 synthetic chemical compounds, including Pfoa (perfluorooctanoic acid) and PFHxS (perfluorohexane sulfonic acid).

They have been used since the 1950s for their…

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Source: lefigaro

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