Mysteries of obesity: wild animals are becoming more obese too

Personal theory --- micro plastic contamination.<p>The environment is totally polluted with it. As we speak, you are most likely inhaling plastic microfibers from your clothes and furniture.<p>Once inside your body, some of them can mimic hormones.

&gt; The calories-in-calories-out perspective assumes that the body stores every extra calorie you eat as fat. But this isn’t the case. Your body has the ability to regulate things like its temperature, and it has similar tools to regulate body fatness.<p>This one will be so hard to swallow for so many people. I actually assume it will never go away, and linger eternally in people’s mind as it’s a way too seductive myth to be resisted.

We should further investigate lecithin consumption as a possible culprit for the obesity epidemic.<p>An eye opening study: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;19288019&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov&#x2F;19288019&#x2F;</a><p>According to this webpage, lecithin production and worlwide use really took off in the late 1970&#x27;s: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soyinfocenter.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;193" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.soyinfocenter.com&#x2F;books&#x2F;193</a><p>As of today, lecithins are present in lots and lots of different manufactured food worldwide.

We have tossed a lot of chemicals into the environment without really understanding what they might do. I’m not sure how we could have done it differently. Some effects don’t show up until you have mass exposure. The best we can do is ban things once we discover there is a problem.<p>The problem then becomes you have entrenched interests manufacturing those chemicals, which makes them hard to ban.<p>Somewhere back in common law we made the mistake of allowing private parties to pollute the commons. And now we have centuries of case law that are impossible to overturn.

Environmental estrogenic chemicals are a common factor that could explain both.<p>This includes HRTs that don&#x27;t get removed in water treatment but also many plasticizers in plastics are estrogenic.

Could it be caused partly by plastics being consumed in higher quantities over time.

Not enough predators?

This is basically a conspiracy theory.<p>They are ignoring expert opinion and answers. And instead making a lot of big claims based on some correlations.<p>The most laughable part being the claim that reducing calorie intake doesn&#x27;t work. Everyone will lose weight by reducing calorie intake. It&#x27;s just physics.<p>Now in practice people have an extremely hard time sticking to diets which makes them ineffective. But people not following diets is not proof that you can&#x27;t lose weight by reducing calories.