Report of the National Toxicology Program 2011 workshop evaluating the scientific evidence linking the development of diabetes to human exposure to environmental chemicals.
Website of Sarah Howard, National Coordinator of The Collaborative on Health and the Environment's Diabetes-Obesity Spectrum Working Group. Provides links to research and other information on the relationships between environmental chemicals and the development of diabetes.
Examines obesity’s relationship to diabetes, and possible relationships being explored between synthetic chemicals and diabetes, obesity, insulin resistance, or metabolic syndrome.
British Columbia Centre of Excellence for Women's Health (BCCEWH)
Media Type:
Online
Discusses how women, who are still the primary caregivers, are more exposed to common endocrine disrupting chemicals such as household cleaning products, than are men, and this exposes them to health risks.
Review of the film Programmed to be Fat,directed by Bruce Mohun, written by Bruce Mohun and Helen Slinger, and produced by Sue Ridout, Helen Slinger and Sara Darling for Dreamfilm Productions in association with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.This documentary examines emerging evidence that chemicals in our environment infiltrate pregnant women’s bodies and “program” their babies to be fat or obese as adults. The film aired on CBC Television’s The Nature of Thingson January 12, 2012.
Information kit that highlights the work of indigenous women who are acting at the local, national and international levels to have their rights respected. Also proposes possible avenues for action to enable indigenous women to take full advantage of legal instruments, and international for a and mechanisms that may be useful in furthering their work.
