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Pollution and Obesity: Pollution can make you fat, says study

Researchers have found a connection between the levels of certain environmental pollutants that an individual gathers in his or her body and their level of obesity.

In the study, the analysts investigated the levels of pollutants gathered in fat tissue in almost 300 men and women, who were gone to in the surgery services of two healing centers in the territory of Granada.

According to Juan Pedro Arrebola from the University of Granada in Spain, “we found that individuals with more elevated amounts of persistent organic pollutants were quantitatively more fat furthermore indicated more elevated amounts of cholesterol and triglycerides.”

A study appeared in the Journal Environmental Pollution says,the discoveries were genuine irrespective of the gender, age, place or smoking propensities of participants in the overview.