Environmental toxins, a potential risk factor for diabetes among canadian aborginals
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Environmental toxins, obesity, and diabetes: an emerging risk factor.
T he inviolable assumption that obesity is simply a thermodynamic problem of calories in/calories out is being dissembled by the science linking environmental toxins to obesity and diabetes. Exposure to environmental toxins in the absence of increased caloric intake induces weight gain and insulin resistance. Stated simply, toxins are an invisible, unappreciated cause of obesity and diabetes. C...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Journal of Circumpolar Health
سال: 2009
ISSN: 2242-3982
DOI: 10.3402/ijch.v68i4.17372