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From: Wendee Nicole wendeenic...@nasw.org
To: ECOLOG-L@LISTSERV.UMD.EDU
Sent: Monday, July 15, 2013 8:31 PM
Subject: Re: [ECOLOG-L] Obesity study of animals?
Well that's fine, but at least read the info about obesogens and their
mechanism of action (it is legit and there's substantial data about
Hello Ecolog-L,
I recently read this article about the trends of obesity world-wide. One of
the points the author makes,
But such results don’t explain why the weight gain is also occurring in
species that human beings don’t pamper, such as animals in labs, whose
diets are strictly controlled. In
Obesity in lab animals? Is he serious?
They don't exercise live in cage 100-1000 time smaller than their natural
habitats, are under terrible stress - need i go on?
On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 7:23 PM, Skylar Bayer skyla...@gmail.com wrote:
Hello Ecolog-L,
I recently read this article about the
I wrote a feature for Environmental Health Perspectives about obesogens,
and in it I cite at least one study that talks about the increasing
weights of lab and other animals (urban, I believe). It also talks about
the science behind it, and what is known so far (mostly focusing on
humans, but if
The research shows despite no substantial changes in lab protocols over the
past decades, there has been an increase in body weight for lab animals.
Wendee
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On Jul 15, 2013, at 8:03 PM, Hilit Finkler hilit.fink...@gmail.com wrote:
Obesity in lab
Maybe its just Cope's rule in action.
Mammals get bigger over evolutionary time...
(I don't really believe this, I suspect its just that we select the
stronger animals to keep and weed out the weaker ones, weaker ones
tend to be smaller, so there would be a general selection
[unintentionally] for
Well that's fine, but at least read the info about obesogens and their
mechanism of action (it is legit and there's substantial data about the
hypothesis, in humans at least) before discounting that possibility (that
endocrine disrupting chemicals are altering the epigenome, creating a
