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Posted Sun Sep 7 2008: from London Independent:
Pollution can make you fat, study claims http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1220797808
 Pollution can make children fat, startling new research shows. A groundbreaking Spanish study indicates that exposure to a range of common chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout, thus helping to drive the worldwide obesity epidemic.... The research, published in the current issue of the journal Acta Paediatrica, measured levels of hexachlorobenzene (HCB), a pesticide, in the umbilical cords of 403 children born on the Spanish island of Menorca, from before birth. It found that those with the highest levels were twice as likely to be obese when they reached the age of six and a half.
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Hexachlorobenzene... I'd like some of that melted and spread on my french fries, please!

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