M6.7 Blog: Obesogens

From the website of the Center of Urban Education and Sustainable Agriculture website (CUESA),  we can see what seasonal vegetables are in season and sold and lower prices:

now looking at this chart, I am going to print it out and utilize what I should be using during these times! Lucky we live in California where we have the ability to have a majority of these vegetables in season all year long !

By purchasing more local, seasonal foods, health care can influence how our food is grown, distributed, processed, and transported and can support human and ecological health. I love this idea and wish our own hospital at UCSF would implement this. This would assist the other communities and ensure healthy diets. Especially since UCSF is a community hospital !

I've never heard of the term "obesogens" before, and now learning about I want to do more research about it. I do believe in this because I was an obese child, way over the average BMI weight for my age as a teenager and I knew it developed from the poor diet I had. The more I hate unhealthy, the more my molecules would be open to this.



Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA)
This is a popular potential endocrine disruptor, found in almost everyone through our blood or physical contact. Human health effects include: 
-Subtle alterations in their thyroid hormone levels in aging populations 
-Women in early pregnancy were associated with smaller ab circumference and birth length were found.




Source: https://cuesa.org/eat-seasonally/charts/vegetables
https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search2/f?./temp/~XZmWv9:3