It might if you drink a lot from plastic water bottles. Scitable, by Nature Education recently had an article on epigenetics and changes to the epigenome that may cause obesity from such things as the plastics in our water bottles. The study here was done on identical twin mice. Even though both had 100% the same DNA, their epigenome differed. The effects changed one of the twin mice with the result of being obese and having yellow fur. We also hear of human identical twins where one gets cancer and the other one doesn’t or one is obese and the other isn’t, etc. This is compelling evidence that the story of who we are is NOT in our genes but in which of our genes are turned ON or OFF. Wouldn’t it be nice if we each came with a User Manual that explained which genes does what and how to turn them ON/OFF? What we do know at this point is that eating lots of fruits and vegetables, exercising moderately and lowering stress through yoga or meditation does have a positive affect on our epigenome.
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Does Drinking Water Cause Obesity?
January 3, 2011
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See You Next year Can our Epigenetics be Affecting Each Other?
Feb 22, 2013 @ 10:00:29
Actual many people in our society today are obese as a result of wht the called enjoyment by spending their time and money on bottle water drink excess though,water is good for the body which may lead to obesity.am of the opinion the messages should be forword to the society at larg on this issue the danger of drinking bottle water thanks.
Feb 22, 2013 @ 10:49:41
I see no study that shows drinking water leads to obesity. Water is expelled easily and naturally from our bodies. There are studies that show you need to drink water to loose weight. Now spending money on water in small plastic bottles, I would agree with you. We produce way too much plastic waste.