Its not just humans who are getting fat. Animals, too. The - TopicsExpress



          

Its not just humans who are getting fat. Animals, too. The potential causes of animal obesity are legion: ranging from increased rates of certain infections to stress from captivity. Antibiotics might increase obesity by killing off beneficial bacteria.... But feral rats studied around Baltimore have gotten fatter, and they don’t suffer the stress of captivity, nor have they received antibiotics. Increasingly, scientists are turning their attention toward factors that humans and the wild and captive animals that live around them have in common: air, soil, and water, and the hormone-altering chemicals that pollute them....
Posted on: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 18:01:02 +0000

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