Does This Dust Make Me Look Fat?

摘要

DUST BUNNIES may be more than a nuisance that irritates your allergies and adds to your chore list - they may also be making you chubby. House dust is full of pollutants, including industrial chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA), that can leach from containers of household products. Researchers tested 40 substances commonly found in the home that they "suspected have some sort of impact on metabolic health," says Duke University's Christopher Kassotis, a co-author of the study, published in July in Environmental Science & Technology. Although the research was limited to mouse cells in a petri dish, Kassotis says the team found that two-thirds of the chemicals tested drove fat cells to develop and proliferate.