Robert Lustig says obesogens like flame retardants and PCBs are in baby clothes and other everyday items, and these chemicals may contribute to weight gain. A new theory of obesity links environmental chemical exposure to the problem.
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Every baby is clothed in clothing that has embedded in it. Flame retardants. Guess what? They're gaining weight from the clothes they wear. Electronics. Polychlorinated biphenyls. Every time you drink water that went through a plastic pipe, you're getting it. Okay? You get the picture. Oh, Organo tins. Like tributyl tin. That's what they paint on the bottom of boats so that barnacles won't attach to the hull. It's in our environment. Okay? All of these things are going on as we speak.
And of course, they happen to be in our diet as well. Okay, so this. You see this? You see where it says impress? It is impress. As of this morning, we just got this paper accepted, okay? A new theory of obesity.