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Diabetes-Obesity Resources
Updated March 2012:
National Toxicology Program (NTP) Workshop on the Role of Environmental Chemicals in the Development of Diabetes and Obesity
The National Toxicology Program (NTP) held a workshop to review the evidence that some environmental chemicals may contribute to diabetes and obesity. The literature review documents, breakout group discussions, and additional resources are available at the website: http://ntp.niehs.nih.gov/go/36433. The documents will be published in 2011 as an NTP Monograph.
Diabetes and the Environment Website
Working Group Coordinator Sarah Howard has created this website exploring the relationships between diabetes and various environmental factors. It summarizes the relevant scientific studies on chemicals that may affect the development of diabetes, obesity, metabolic syndrome, autoimmunity, and insulin resistance, with links to the source articles: www.diabetesandenvironment.org.
There is also a list of articles in the popular press on chemicals and diabetes and related conditions at http://www.diabetesandenvironment.org/home/further-reading.
CHEM Trust: A Review of the Science Linking Chemical Exposures to the Human Risk of Obesity and Diabetes
Read more
Environmental Health Perspective: Role of Environmental Chemicals in Diabetes and Obesity: A National Toxicology Program Workshop Report
NTP is publishing reviews from the workshop throughout 2012.
Read more
The International Diabetes Federation (IDF) Consensus Worldwide Definition of the Metabolic Syndrome
Download the PDF
Let’s Move
Michele Obama’s initiative to solve the challenge of childhood obesity within a generation.
Website: http://www.letsmove.gov/
CHE’s open letter to Michele Obama:
http://ourhealthandenvironment.wordpress.com/2010/03/29/letter-to-michelle-obama/
CHE Partnership Calls
May 12, 2011: Diabetes and Obesity: Evaluating the Science on Chemical Contributors (MP3 recording available)
May 7, 2009: Metabolic Syndrome: At the Crossroads of the Western Diseases Cluster (MP3 recording available)
An archive of all past CHE Partnership calls can be found at http://www.healthandenvironment.org/news/calls
Practice Prevention Column:
September 2011: Obesogens Practice Prevention Column (PDF)
CHE Blog Entries
Sept. 9, 2010: Obesity and Related Health Conditions: A Call for Primary Prevention Strategies, by Elise Miller
http://ourhealthandenvironment.wordpress.com/2010/09/09/obesity-and-related-health-conditions-a-call-for-primary-prevention-strategies/
July 16, 2010: Dioxin- Scientific Analysis, by the Environmental Working Group
http://ourhealthandenvironment.wordpress.com/2010/07/16/dioxin-scientific-analysis/
June 2, 2010: Can Environmental Contaminants Contribute to the Development of Diabetes? By Sarah Howard
http://ourhealthandenvironment.wordpress.com/2010/06/02/can-environmental-contaminants-contribute-to-the-development-of-diabetes/
April 14, 2010: Diabetes, Obesity, and Cumulative Stressors on Health, by Elise Miller
http://ourhealthandenvironment.wordpress.com/2010/04/14/diabetes-obesity-and-cumulative-stressors-on-health/
Also see articles from Environmental Health News: http://www.environmentalhealthnews.org/
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