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Top 10 Reasons for Obesity
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Tags: obestity, diet, weight, health
The International Journal of Obesity says we’re facing a weight gain epidemic, and although one might assume that over-eating might have something to do with this problem, apparently that is incorrect. Here are the reasons we’re getting fat.
| | Inadequate sleep. Average sleep amounts have fallen and many studies tie sleep deprivation to weight gain. |
| | Endocrine disruptors, which are substances in some foods that may alter fats in the body. |
| | Nice temperatures. Air conditioning and heating do limit calories burned from sweating and shivering. |
| | Fewer people smoking. Less appetite suppression. |
| | Medicines that cause weight gain. |
| | Population changes. More middle-ages and Hispanics, who have higher obesity rates. |
| | Older birth moms. That correlates with heavier children. |
| | Genetic influences during pregnancy. |
| | Darwinian natural selection. Fat people out-survive skinny ones. |
| | Assortative mating, or "like mating with like," as Allison puts it. Translation: fat people procreating with others of the same body type, gradually skewing the population toward the heavy end. |
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