Re: Does Bisphenol A cause Obesity?

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Ak! Makes ya wonder about the magnitude and number of unsuspectedfactors influencing our lives, bodies, minds, not to mention possible effectson subsequent generations.Spooky!

On 3/11/07, mikesheldrick <mike@...> wrote:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031100918.html

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Hi Mike:

OK. So how does this cause obesity?

1. Does it improve appetite so that people eat more?

2. Or improve their intestinal absorptive function so they extract

more of the calories they eat?

3. Or make them physically lazy so they burn off fewer calories?

4. Or make their metabolism more efficient so they can perform their

usual daily tasks with a lower caloric expenditure? By lowering body

temperature as a possible example (which, of course, is a biomarker

for longevity).

Preservation of fat reserves was one of the characteristics of the

longest-lived of the CR mice in at least one experiment, according a

post of Warren's here a couple of years ago.

Are there other routes, in addition to those listed above, by which

something like this might cause obesity? It sure would be

interesting to know how this works, whatever the mechanism turns out

to be.

Rodney.

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