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POPs Correlated with Childhood Obesity

Posted by Mel on September 8th, 2008

One of the arguments for forcing Inuit to continue eating food contaminated with hazardous waste levels of persistent pesticides such as Chlordane and toxaphene has been the fear that if children abandoned traditional food, they would become obese. In the past few years, the presence of POPs in the blood has correlated with obesity. Scientists reasoned that […]