Pollution can make you fat, study claims
Children exposed to pesticide in womb twice as likely to be overweight, refuting idea of sole personal responsibility.

As seen in The Independant

by Geoffrey Lean
Sunday, 7 September 2008

Pollution can make children fat, startling new research shows. A groundbreaking Spanish study indicates that exposure to a range of common chemicals before birth sets up a baby to grow up stout, thus helping to drive the worldwide obesity epidemic.

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As seen in the Guardian Observer

by Juliette Jowit
Sunday, September 7, 2008

People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world's leading authority on global warming has told The Observer

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.