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Reducing exposure to environmental chemicals and improving nutrition during development can prevent obesity and metabolic diseases.
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Reducing exposures to environmental chemicals and improving nutrition during development offers the possibility of preventing obesity and metabolic diseases.
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Based on the consensus of expert opinion and supporting animal/human data.
Source
Parma consensus statement on metabolic disruptors
Jerrold J. Heindel et al. · Environmental Health · 2015
DOI 10.1186/s12940-015-0042-7
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- Exposure to environmental metabolic disruptors (e.g., BPA, phthalates, TBT) during critical developmental windows (in utero, early childhood) permanently alters metabolic programming, increasing susceptibility to obesity, diabetes, and metabolic syndrome later in life.Good
- Metabolic disruptors can cause transgenerational inheritance of obesity and metabolic dysfunction, affecting offspring (F3 generation) who were never directly exposed to the chemical.Moderate
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