Chemicals found in cereal is making us obese: Study | Health & Fitness | Life |
▻http://www.torontosun.com/2017/08/11/chemicals-found-in-cereal-is-making-us-obese-study
You may want to rethink having that bowl of corn flakes for breakfast.
New research by experts at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles show that cereal is making people obese.
Published in the journal of Nature Communications, the paper states that chemical ingredients commonly used in breakfast cereals are having distressing effects on our bodies.
Looking at the effects of three different chemicals commonly ingested or exposed to humans, they found that each one was damaging the hormones needed to communicate between our brains and our stomach.
When all three were combined, the damage was worse.
One of the three chemicals used in the study was butylhydroxytoluene (BHT), which is an antioxidant used in many breakfast cereals to preserve taste and appearance and prevent them from turning rancid. The chemical is also found in other food products such as certain brands of cookies and chips.
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“This is a landmark study that substantially improves our understanding of how endocrine disruptors may damage human hormonal systems and contribute to the obesity epidemic in the U.S.,” said Clive Svendsen, director of the Cedars-Sinai Regenerative Medicine Institute.
BHT has long been discussed as a potentially harmful additive but past studies never looked at the effects on humans. This would be the first time that researchers can confirm that BHT, tributyltin (TBT), and perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA) are negatively affecting our hormones and our waistlines.