If true, it could turn the conventional wisdom of how obesity causes diabetes on its head. Emerging evidence suggests that pollutants stored in body fat may be contributing to the ongoing rise of type 2 diabetes.
While obesity is still thought to be a major cause, there is more and more evidence to suggest that persistent organic pollutants (POPs) also play a key role.
“While obesity is thought to be a major cause, there is more and more evidence to suggest that pollutants also play a key role”
POPs are synthetic chemicals that can accumulate in the fatty tissue of…
