USA SCIENTISTS LINK PHTHALATES TO MALE OBESITY
March 1st, 2007
BY MONICA DOBIEPHTHALATES, the important plastics ingredient commonly used to make toys and other products, have been linked to abdominal obesity and insulin resistance in men by the University of Rochester Medical Center, in the USA.Concerns that the chemical caused reproduction problems have ben widely circulated, but now Rochester lead researcher Dr Richard Stahlhut has concluded in statistical studies that low-dose exposures to phthalates could reduce testosterone in men, boosting obesity rates and related disorders, such as type 2 diabetes.His New York ...
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