The Study: In the study, researchers compared levels of seven common persistent organic pollutants in 1,099 adults who participated in a national health study in 1999-2002.
Posted by Jack
Sept. 7, 2010 — There may actually be an unhealthy downside to losing weight. A new study finds that blood levels of substances known as persistent organic pollutants were higher in people who had lost weight compared to people who maintained or gained weight. Persistent organic pollutants (POPs) are compounds created by humans in industrial processes and have been linked to a wide range of illnesses, including type 2 diabetes, cancer, dementia, and heart disease. The study appears in the International Journal of Obesity.
Persistent organic pollutants are stored in fat tissues in the body. But when the amount of fat is decreased — as through weight loss — they may be released into the bloodstream, where they may enter vital organs, such as the heart and brain.
Researches found levels of POPs were significantly higher in adults who had experienced more weight loss. This effect was slightly higher in people who had maintained their weight loss for 10 years or more, compared with people who had sustained it for only one year.
It’s still unclear whether this release of the persistent organic pollutants associated with weight loss or pre-existing obesity-related illnesses are responsible for this increase in risk. Further study will be needed to determine whether this release of persistent organic pollutants is responsible for any negative health effects following weight loss.
This’ll make ya lose some weight…
$1.2 Billion Obamacare Contract Pays Workers to Do Nothing
http://globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com/2014/05/12-billion-obamacare-contract-pays.html
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Bob you’ve stumbled on the perfect poster for Obamacare and his economic policy!
Good goin!
Dewey, what are you saying? “Lions and Tigers and Sheeple oh no!” Are you disputing the results of the medical study?
Dewey, what are you saying?….. nothing as usual!
Based on the amount of “Lyings and tirades and shallow” posts by Dewey (and he used 3 pseudonyms to rail all his rants)I would venture he might have an inordinate amount of those “Persistent organic pollutants” lodged between his ears
Geez, Bob. Look a little further into it … even only as far as the Wiki entry for the Serco Group PLC … which will make the hairs on any number of body parts stand up.
And now I suppose we should try to find who they employ on “K” Street and who in the Congress awarded them this contract, but if we did that, we would become horribly, horribly depressed.
And political partisanism comes nowhere into this. But I won’t insist you give it up, because it is a useful means of avoiding truly horrible, horrible depression: “it’s not me, it’s them.”
Open Question: What other brain-dead stoners besides Dewey and Libby will be attracted to this post?
Dang, I should have not eaten all that organic produce.
Libby: “who in the Congress awarded them this contract…”
Sabelius handed out a lot of them personally.
“And political partisanism comes nowhere into this”
Sure…that’s why ACORN and Planned Parenthood scored so big.
The government is a cash machine without a lock…what did this administration expect to flow from it’s entitlement ideology?