Obesogens and Obesogenic Environment: New Targets for Prevention of Global Obesity

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10.2991/icmcs-18.2018.120How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Obesity; Obesogens; Obesogenic environment

Abstract

Obesity refers to abnormal biological status characterized by overweight or having excess adipose tissue, defined as BMI (body mass index) over 30 (or 28 for Chinese). With increasing population of overweight and obesity, it has been a great threat to human health, in that it contributed to illnesses such as endocrine diseases, metabolic diseases and so on. Researches on obesity mainly focus on lifestyle and diet changes, blaming obesity mainly on sedentary lifestyle and high calorie uptake, which could not lead to infants and domestic animals getting fat completely and actions to prevent obesity based merely on such theory have not made great progress. Considering specific chemicals have negative effect on differentiation, proliferation and metabolism, recent researches pay more attention to obesogenic environments and obesogens and their mechanism of action. Such researches provide new targets for preventing global obesity, making it closer to eliminating such threat.

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© 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - Yun Feng
AU  - Zhutao Wang
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TI  - Obesogens and Obesogenic Environment: New Targets for Prevention of Global Obesity
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