The Lights in Your BedroomStreetlights that shimmer behind the curtains, digital alarm clocks (people still use those, right?), and the hordes of electric devices on standby mode, staring at you with their unblinking LED eyes while they feast on excess electricity like the energy vampires that they are. We've already told you that all those harmless little lights are actually stressing you out and messing up your melatonin levels. Turns out, that's not the only thing they're screwing with: exposure to light as you sleep might also make you fat.Not only did the mice exposed to light gain weight but they actually increased their body mass a full 50 percent. In eight weeks. Oh, and they also showed signs of impaired glucose tolerance, which of course is science-speak for two heaping scoops of diabetes.Your Cosmetics and Personal Care ProductsPersonal care products such as lotions, perfumes, deodorant, cosmetics, etc., all typically contain chemicals called phthalates. Exposure to these little fellas can mess with the endocrine system by tricking your body into secreting insulin when you don't really need it.Surely this will insulate us against the savage winters that climate change is bringing our way. The bad news: having your system pumped full of insulin can lead to insulin resistance, which has long been linked with obesity.Just Handling Paper ProductsBisphenol A deserves its bad reputation. Not only does it disturb the endocrine system like that gunk in your personal care products, it's also fully capable of taking cells that may or may not become fat cells and making sure they damn well doBPA is commonly used as a color developer, which means you'll find it in paper products like receipts, newspapers, business cards, and even that quaint, old-fashioned magazine pornography that the gentlemen of yesteryear favored. And yes, BPA screws up your body even in small doses, and it jumps to your system with remarkable efficiency.The AtmosphereSome Canadian researchers believe that CO2 causes blood to become more acidic, which in turn affects brain cells that regulate metabolism, sleep, and appetite. Now, take a wild guess which naturally occurring chemical compound we're breathing in way more than we used to. It's not just us, either. Animals have been packing on pounds too, and it looks like the whole CO2 thing is the only likely culprit: one ambitious 2012 study by Danish researchers demonstrated that a hefty 20,000 test animals of eight different species, all housed in different laboratories, had their average weight go through the roof over the past 50 years. If you don't believe CO2 is a factor, here: they were nice enough to calculate some probabilities: the chances of such a trend happening randomly are 1 in 10,000,000, and CO2 is the only viable common denominator they found.
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