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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread is off the rails. It was answered early on that we have many environmental factors disrupting our endocrine systems nowadays. People are more interested in touting their virtue and ability to cook wholesome meals at any budget. [/quote]

Wholesome meals are nice but they, or their lack, aren't the reason that some kids are skinny and some kids are thick.  It's partly genetics and food abundance (or a coping mechanism for abuse) but it's mostly an endocrine/metabolism issue caused by environmental factors, particularly pervasive antibiotics but also microplastics and probably others.  [/quote]

Agree and also, trauma and stress are huge determinants. [/quote]

Holy cow you people are insane, no wonder we have the obesity epidemic we do. No, the average overweight elementary-aged kid has not been exposed to enough trauma, abuse, or “endocrine disrupters” in their 8 short years to cause their obesity. It’s the parents. Clearly! As evidenced by this thread. [/quote]

Endocrine disrupters are everywhere.  But the solution is the same (clean diet, minimize exposure generally).[/quote]

Find me a study that endocrine disrupters are the cause of an entire very recent and new generation of childhood obesity. No one is denying they’re real, you are however vastly vastly overstating their impacts on children in an attempt to…what? Reduce your culpability as a parent? Shameful [/quote]

It is well known, and considered a feature rather than a big, that antibiotics in agricultural use increases the size of animals.  Antibiotics are routinely used prophylactically as a precaution and to make up for poor living conditions, and as a bonus, the animals are larger, making them more profitable. Win win.  After the animals are slaughtered, those antibiotics remain and are then consumed by people, including children.

The antibiotics probably work to increase size by altering the gut biome but it isn't well studied because no one cares that much.

Children are given antibiotics from birth and throughout childhood for a variety of reasons.  But even those who never take antibiotics are still consuming them every day.[/quote]

Even if this were true, it doesn't explain why all of the thin kids and adults who still eat all of this stuff are thin. So, it's not this. [/quote]

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