Another Good Reason to Clean the House

Dust may be making you fat.

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By: TOM BRANNA

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Put down the ice cream and pick up the Pledge. According to a report in Medical News Today, household dust may promote the growth of fat cells—really. At ENDO 2019, the annual meeting of the Endocrine Society,  Christopher Kassotis, Ph.D., from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment, in Durham, NC, has found evidence suggesting that household dust may promote the development of fat cells, since this dust can contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals. “We found that two...

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