Common pesticide may contribute to global obesity crisis

ScienceDaily
Aug 27, 2021, 6:41 pm112 pts
Researchers discovered that chlorpyrifos, which is banned for use on foods in Canada but widely sprayed on fruits and vegetables in many other parts of the world, slows down the burning of calories in the brown adipose tissue of mice. Reducing this burning of calories, a process known as diet-induced…

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