Soaps and Cosmetics Can Make You Fat

New evidence shows that obesity or overweight can occur not only due to dietary factors, but also a result of daily products that you normally wear such as shampoo, soap and cosmetics. 

Doctors at Mount Sinai Medical Center, New York, claiming the cause is phthalates, chemicals found in 70% of cosmetic products and soap. Substances were allegedly disrupting hormones control the body's natural weight.

Exposure to phthalates in high amounts can result in everyday obesity in children.

The team from Mount Sinai to study the length of girls who live in the area of ​​East Harlem, New York. They examined the levels of phthalates in the urine of children.
"Children are the most weight had the highest levels of phthalates in their urine," said professor Philip Landrigan.
"The higher levels are, the more weight. But that was most evident in children whose body is the hardest," he explained.
Phthalates are widely used as a gelling agent in various cosmetic products, soap and plastic bottles, for more than half a century. However, only this time the chemical is suspected as a cause of health problems.
Other chemicals Bisphenol-A (BPA), also contained in the bottles and packaging. It also contains many substances "chemical calories".
Known as endocrine penggangu, the chemicals that enter the body and disrupt the glands and hormones that regulate many body functions.
Not only women who risk their health affected by phthalates. In 2007, researchers at the University of Rochester School of Medicine found that chemicals in the same class as the cause of abdominal fat and insulin resistance that can lead to diabetes among men.
Rochester scientists analyzed urine samples, blood and other data belongs to 1451 men. The result they found the man who most urine contains phthalates have the most in body fat and insulin resistance.
According to them, a little testosterone levels caused by chemicals is the biggest cause of obesity that.