US EPA

2302249 

Journal Article 

Obesogens an environmental link to obesity 

Holtcamp, W 

2012 

Yes 

Environmental Health Perspectives
ISSN: 0091-6765
EISSN: 1552-9924 

120 

2 

A62-A68 

English 

22296745 

10.1289/ehp.120-a62 

WOS:000299915400009 

Obesity has risen steadily in the United States over the past 150 years, with a marked uptick in recent decades. In the United States today more than 35% of adults3 and nearly 17% of children aged 2–19 years are obese. Obesity plagues people not just in the United States but worldwide, including, increasingly, developing countries. Even animals—pets, laboratory animals, and urban rats—have experienced increases in average body weight over the past several decades, trends not necessarily explained by diet and exercise. In the words of Robert H. Lustig, a professor of clinical pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, “[E]ven those at the lower end of the BMI [body mass index] curve are gaining weight. Whatever is happening is happening to everyone, suggesting an environmental trigger.”