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Monday, January 05, 2015

Air Pollution, Obesity an Diabetes

     Qinghua Sun of Ohio State University published a study in 2010 suggesting that early exposure of mice to fine particulate air pollution led to the accumulation of abdominal fat and insulin resistance even when animals the animals ate a normal diet. John F. Pearson, a Harvard researcher was surprised to find a consistent and significant relationsip between Type II diabetes and air pollution.
Link to article on air pollution and obesity.

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