Female hormone estrogen benefits women but in men an imbalance of female sex hormones may lead to obesity especially if you are living in the western developed world. Obesity among western men could be linked with exposure to substances containing the female sex hormone estrogen - substances that are more often found in soy products and plastic products like PVC. Hormonally-driven weight gain occurs more significantly in females than in males in the developing world. 'However in the US Europe and Australia the rates of hormonally-driven obesity between men and women are much closer. In some western nations male
