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We usually think of diet and exercise as the key factors to obesity, but new research has found that exposure to certain chemicals called obesogens can echo down through at least three generations to promote obesity.
Diet and exercise are seen as the key factors that cause obesity, but new research suggests that certain chemicals called obesogens contribute to the global weight problem. Bruce Blumberg, professor of developmental and cell biology at the University of California at Irvine tells host Steve Curwood that the effects of an obesogenic chemical he studied seem to persist for several generations.