Many contributing elements determine a person's weight, including genetics, muscle mass, diet, exercise routine and environmental factors. But a new study found one surprising contributor to weight, as far as women are concerned: air pollution.
, a multi-site, long-term study designed to examine the health of women during their middle years. Data collected from the women, who had a median age of 49.6, included body size and body composition. The researchers also tracked annual air pollution exposures.
The researchers also looked at how air pollution and physical activity influenced body composition and found that high levels of physical activity were a good way to offset exposure to air pollution. Wang says it's not surprising that air pollution may play a role in the development of obesity. "If we look at history, it is not hard to find that the fast rise in obesity prevalence has paralleled the increasing exposure to environmental pollutants," he says.
As for exercise helping to combat the impact of air pollution on weight, that is correlated with the benefits of exercise in general, Dr. Mark Conroy, an emergency medicine physician at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, tells Yahoo Life. "Exercise has long been viewed as having a strong association with improved health and body composition," he says.
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