Like many of us, Professor Mohamed Abdallah likes to take regular exercise.
But it is what he chooses to wear while doing it, however, that deviates from the norm. The Professor of Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology at the University of Birmingham steers clear of specialist workout gear, instead sticking to natural fabrics like cotton.
This isn’t a stylistic choice, but one shaped by more than a decade spent researching how chemicals interact with the human body, which found that while high-performance sportswear may look the part, it could be
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