2007-08-15 23:25:47 - Obesity Task Force, a new division of Michael Torchia's Operation Fitness reports malpractice, evidence of unhealthy manufacturing and new discoveries of poisons in our environment, such as the dangers of plastic. The goal is to educate the nation and the world to set new standards for health and wellness organizations.

Los Angeles, CA, August 15, 2007- Michael Torchia has formed the Operation Fitness "Healthy Task Force," an elite team of health experts that conduct research into manufacturers and distributors of products containing toxic chemicals, refined sugars, preservatives, artificial sweeteners and genetically modified ingredients. Members of the task force will report all their findings to legislative representatives, Governmental agencies, as well

as to school officials. Their goal is to provide essential information to children and parents so that healthy choices can be made. His goal is to eradicate this devastating problem by being pro-active and by using preventative measures. Michael truly believes the key to success is by properly educating both children and adults. The goal of Torchia's Global Alert is to set new standards for health and wellness organizations throughout the United States and the World.

Michael Torchia's "Obesity Task Force" division of Operation Fitness will create awareness and provide simple methods for both children and their parents to change their way of life---one child, one parent, one community and one state at a time, until we can truly become a healthier, happier and substantially more productive World.

"It is just as important to focus on preventing obesity, as it is to alleviating this rapidly growing disease affecting our nation," says Michael Torchia.

The Chemical Link to Obesity

Researchers investigating endocrine disruption had focused primarily on behavioral and reproductive consequences. But over the past few years, it's become clear that some of the synthetic chemicals that disrupt the endocrine system also induce weight gain. What's more, production of these chemicals closely tracks the rise of obesity.

The brain is a target, bone, as well as adipose tissue (fat cells). During prenatal and neonatal development, adipocytes (fat cells) receive the instructions they need to function properly throughout life. Scientists assumed that the reproductive tract was the target tissue. And now they're beginning to realize that it is only part of the problem. More and more researchers see how involved adipose tissue is, absorbing much more than normal, when affected by these chemicals. Researchers discovered a link between estrogen and obesity when scientists tried to replicate results on bisphenol A and prostate development. They produced obese animals.

Scientists found no differences in the prostates of mice fed bisphenol A or normal mouse food. Yet in 25 years of using that mouse strain, researchers had never seen an animal as big as those ever recorded. And, it turned out, all the rodent groups had enlarged prostates after all--which could explain why no differences were reported. The scientists had achieved with normal food what researchers had done with bisphenol A.

Scientists are concerned that exposing this "highly sensitive subgroup" of babies to environmental chemicals that lead to accelerated postnatal growth will permanently alter their capacity to metabolize even normal diets and predispose them, like the mice in his experiments, to a lifetime of obesity.

The Holistic Healing Foundation (HHF) researchers acknowledge that trying to unravel all the "phenomenally complex" interactions and components that contribute to obesity is "like chipping away at the food pyramid," but they have no doubt that animal studies on bisphenol A's effects have relevance to humans. (HHF) feel the chemical is harming snails, insects, lobsters, fish, frogs, reptiles, birds, and rats, and the chemical industry is telling people that because you're human, unless there's human data, you can feel completely safe.

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Michael Torchia

Health and Wellness Expert

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