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The interplay between environmental chemical exposures and obesity proceedings of a workshop

"In March 2015, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine held a workshop to explore the role that chemical exposures may play in the development of obesity. The obesity epidemic that has gripped the United States and much of the developed world for the past several decades...

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Main Author: Pool, Robert
Corporate Authors: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (U.S.) Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine, Interplay between Environmental Chemical Exposures and Obesity (Workshop) (2015, Research Triangle Park , N.C.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Washington, DC National Academies Press 2016, [2016]©2016
Subjects:
Environmental Pollutants / Toxicity
Obesity / Epidemiology
Obesity / Chemically Induced
United States / Epidemiology
Environmental Exposure / Adverse Effects
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Collection: National Center for Biotechnology Information - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Framing the problem
  • Developmental view of the role of chemical exposures and obesity
  • Biological pathways and environmental influences
  • Other possible contributors to obesity
  • Research needs
  • Obesity policy solutions discussed at the workshop
  • A. Workshop agenda
  • B. Speaker biographical sketches
  • Includes bibliographical references

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