Mai A. Elobeid

TL;DR: Evidence for microorganisms, epigenetics, increasing maternal age, greater fecundity among people with higher adiposity, assortative mating, sleep debt, endocrine disruptors, pharmaceutical iatrogenesis, reduction in variability of ambient temperatures, and intrauterine and intergenerational effects as contributing factors to the obesity epidemic are reviewed.

TL;DR: The associations between waist circumference and body mass index with the body burdens of selected toxic metals suggest the possibility that environmental exposure to metals may contribute to variations in human weight gain/loss.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors meta-analytically evaluate the extent of missing data, the frequency with which various analytic methods are employed to accommodate dropouts, and the performance of multiple statistical methods.

TL;DR: Obesity, which is known to increase medical costs and reduce quality and length of life, may be increasing as a function of endocrine disruptor exposure and warrants additional vigorous research in this area.

TL;DR: BMI and WC are associated with POPs levels, making the chemicals plausible contributors to the obesity epidemic.