Breathe in air pollution and pack on the pounds
We have come a long way since the 3500 calories = 1 lb of fat conventional wisdom of the 1990s fitness fads, but one thing remains the same: What goes into your body does matter …it just might not get there through your mouth.
Researchers from the University of Michican School of Public Health led by reported in Diabetes Care that fine-particle air pollution may be a factor in the obesity epidemic.
Scientists led by Dr. Xin Wang crunched numbers from the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation and found that women then in their 40s and 50s with histories of residing in areas with high levels of nitrogen dioxide, ozone, and particles smaller than PM2.5 showed a trend for higher body fat and less lean mass. Exercise was found to mitigate these effects.
Read the full study in Diabetes Care at 10.2337/dc22-0963.
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