Yeah, so the air is apparently making us fat.
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A new study suggests that long-term air pollution exposure is linked to women gaining weight — particularly ladies in their late 40s and 50s, EurekAlert reported.
Observed women who were exposed to poor air quality, specifically higher levels of fine particles, such as nitrogen dioxide and ozone, had seen increases in their body size, according to study author Xin Wang, an epidemiology research investigator at the University of Michigan.
It's funny, because places like Mexico City, New Delhi, and Beijing have some of the most ridiculous air pollution on the planet. So did cities like London and New York during the Industrial Revolution. Yet the people in those places and times weren't pudgy.
The exposure to air pollution was tied to higher body fat, fat proportion and lower lean mass for middle-aged women. EurekAlert noted that "body fat increased by 4.5%, or about 2.6 pounds."
"I'm 130 pounds overweight because of the air," she said, eating her fifth Little Debbie cake of the day.
Look, I'm not here to pick on the ladies. I'm just here to laugh at this absurd waste of research dollars (these participants were tracked for EIGHT years) and tell you that an extra theoretical 3 pounds from air pollution isn't what's causing your problem.
There are so many news articles out there that get people to do ridiculous and expensive things instead of doing the obvious to solve their problems. We could just lose weight if we have an air purifier or eat turmeric or solve systemic racism.
However, exercise and physical activity acted as a deterrent to the effects in these findings, according to the outlet.
This is a hard truth that even I, as a world-class chef, need to hear: If we want to lose weight, we need to do two simple things:
- Move more.
- Eat less.
You can add more sleep, more sunshine, and more meat and eggs to that list as well, but the basics are ridiculously easy.
