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"What a strange week for beauty/health news. First, we found out about &amp;quot;smelly head syndrome&amp;quot; and now it seems your shampoo might be adding to your waistline. Apparently, findings at Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York suggest that chemicals called phthalates found in a lot of beauty and household products might mess up our hormonal balances and make us gain weight. Well, sort of. They actually don&amp;#x27;t know just yet, but when they tested peoples&amp;#x27; urine the heavier folks had more phthalates in their bodies. But since correlation does not equal causation, we can&amp;#x27;t yet declare that they&amp;#x27;re to blame for the weight difference. There could be other factors here, like perhaps fat helps your body to absorb phthalates in the first place. And it would be interesting to see if cutting the chemicals out of products would help people lose weight. We&amp;#x27;ll have to watch to see what the follow-up studies to this one show. You can read more about the study here. But I wonder, have you been paying more attention to the ingredients in beauty products recently? Have you even hear of phthalates before? Have you been trying to go chemical-free altogether? Talk about it below. *** More Ways to Get Glamour: More Ways to Get Glamour: NEW! Now You Can Read Glamour on Flipboard! Download Glamour on your iPad&amp;amp;#8212;print subscribers, it&amp;amp;#8217;s now part of your subscription plan! Like freebies? Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes. Sign up for our fashion and beauty newsletters to get easy style tips (it&amp;#x27;ll make your inbox 10x sexier, we promise). One more PS: Did you know you can now read glamour.com on your smart phone?! It&amp;amp;#8217;s the ultimate boredom buster. Photos: ThinkStock "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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