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Obesity is Tied to Pollutants

Obesity Is Tied to Pollutants. (2014, November 17). Retrieved November 24, 2014, from http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/11/17/obesity-is-tied-to-pollutants/

Exposure to secondhand smoke and roadway traffic may be tied to obesity.  Researchers found that compared to children that wasn’t exposed to any of the air pollution, B.M.I. was 2.15 higher in children that were exposed to both roadway traffic pollution and secondhand smoke.  A normal B.M.I. for adults is 18.5 to 24.9.  Higher that 25 is considered overweight and above 30 is obese.

This article was actually able to prove the study that air pollution causes obesity.  This is for the reason that statistics of the B.M.I. of children who were exposed to air pollution compared to the children who weren’t was shown.  My hope is that the people who might have read the article will have to do something in order to prevent the issue like I did when I read it.  For me, the best way to deal with this now is to encourage people not only to be more ecofriendly but social friendly as well.

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Obese because of Air Pollution?

Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine. (2014, September 8). Air pollution may affect levels of obesity-related hormone. ScienceDaily. Retrieved November 23, 2014 from www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/09/140908120012.htm

To figure out whether higher exposure to traffic-related air pollution cause higher levels of obesity-related hormone, Gregory A. Wellenius, ScD, of Brown University and his colleagues decided to investigate the issue.  They did this by measuring the traffic-related air pollution of Boston and the blood leptin levels of some of 765 adult people.  Although the result can’t prove any casual link of the issue, the link between the black carbon exposure and leptin levels might help.

It is reasonable to have a study of whether or not air pollution causes higher levels of obesity-related hormone.  Since there are numbers of consequences an air pollution is able to produce, the issue relating to the article is an addition.  In theory, this article and any other articles relating to air pollution interpret the fact that air pollutants are dangerous that if no immediate action was done, all the people will be having numerous diseases that results from air pollution.