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Apparently even animals such as monkeys and rats kept in labs and fed the same calories under controlled conditions are fatter than the same animals fed the sam
by arcadeparade 8y ago
Apparently even animals such as monkeys and rats kept in labs and fed the same calories under controlled conditions are fatter than the same animals fed the same decades ago. Xenoestrogens?
- sambroner 8y agoDo you have a source for that? Super interesting...
- joker3 8y agoIt might be climate change. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/climate-change-food-crops-nutrition https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/may/07/climate-... details how high CO2 levels lead to food crops with more sugar and less nutrients. As a result, animals fed the same diet aren't getting the same calories as they used to.
- cwkoss 8y agoSoil depletion and optimizing for size has also caused a drop in vitamin and mineral content https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-and-nutrition-loss/ https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/soil-depletion-an...
- cwkoss 8y agoI'm also curious if there is any effect from trace amounts of insecticides, herbicides and fungicides in our water and food supply. Agriculture has experimented with many novel compounds in the past century, and I don't trust that each of these compounds was diligently studied by researchers without a conflict of interest.
- pmarreck 8y agoLink to this data?
- cimmanom 8y agoThought there was an air conditioning hypothesis about that?