Using household chemicals can lead to childhood obesity

Frequent use of cleaning products in the home can lead to the recruitment of excess weight and violation of the microflora. Research conducted by canadian scientists studying the effects of microflora on the development and growth of children.

As you know, in the human intestine has a complicated microflora. These bacteria have a great impact on life: health, emotions and well-being. If this structure is disturbed, the person observed various problems, even it affects obesity. To date, all these mechanisms are not well understood, but scientists continue to work in this field.

A group of scientists under the leadership of Anita Kozyrska at the University of Alberta have conducted studies as the use of cleaning products in the home can affect the microflora of children and appearance have their excess weight. For analysis was used in the research work of 757 children, whose age ranged from 3 to 4 months. Then at the age of 1 to 3 years were analyzed and recorded their weight. During this period, the researchers monitored the amount of usage in families where they grew up, household chemicals. The children had low levels of bacteria and Clostridium Haemophilus and high — Lachnospiraceae.

At the age of three, children living in these homes, had a higher body mass index. The active use of “biological” means the result of Lachnospiraceae were not provided, but decreased the number of enterobacteria. It does not correlate the changes with a high BMI. Experts note that a small amount of enterobacteria does not guarantee that a person will not be overweight. Therefore, it was concluded that cleaning products had an impact on the child’s weight. In this regard, they suggest to use when cleaning home eco-friendly cleaning products.