Obesity is a worldwide pandemic in adults as well as children and adds greatly to health
care costs through its association with type 2 diabetes, metabolic syndrome, cardiovascular
disease, and cancers. The prevailing medical view of obesity is that it results from a simple
imbalance between caloric intake and energy expenditure. However, numerous other
factors are important in the etiology of obesity. The obesogen hypothesis proposes that
environmental chemicals termed obesogens promote obesity by acting to increase …