20 March 2013 CHE Partnership call: Transgenerational Effects of Prenatal Exposure to Environmental Obesogens in Rodents.

Accumulating scientific research suggests that exposure to environmental chemicals early in life can affect the risk of obesity in later life. Chemicals that can increase the risk of obesity are known as "obesogens." Two recently published animal studies take obesogen research one step further: both found that the obesity-related effects of prenatal exposure to environmental chemicals were passed down to the third generation descendants of the exposed animals.