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- noun A chemical or other factor that disturbs a body's normal processes, causing it to tend toward
obesity .
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Examples
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Perhaps that's because Americans haven't tried "The New American Diet," which promises to reveal "why your weight isn't your fault" and reverse "the obesogen effect."
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It discusses, with some level of deserved cynicism, a new book on diets and chemicals, The New American Diet: How secret "obesogens" are making us fat, and the 6-week plan that will flatten your belly for good!, that, in part, blames the worldwide increase in weight on environmental chemicals referred to as "the obesogen effect."
Gary Liberson: Obesogens: The New Excuse for Being Overweight 2010
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An obesogen is a chemical that makes a living organism gain fat.
Are everyday chemicals contributing to global obesity? Anthony King 2023
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Blumberg coined the term obesogen in 2006, when his lab showed that tributyltin chloride promoted fat formation in mice.
Are everyday chemicals contributing to global obesity? Anthony King 2023
bilby commented on the word obesogen
The White House Task Force on Childhood Obesity released a report called 'Solving the Problem of Childhood Obesity Within a Generation.' In the report they list endocrine-disrupting chemicals as a possible reason for increased obesity in the country and describe how scientists have coined a new term for these chemicals — obesogens — because they 'may promote weight gain and obesity'.
NOTE: I did provide attribution to source but this site's fascistbot stripped it out.
July 27, 2010
gangerh commented on the word obesogen
And the antidote to be known as obesogon?
July 27, 2010