Hutts Health Hub: June 2012

Thursday, June 14, 2012

Those tough old sperm are on the march...

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Sperms have proven their toughness and some negative lifestyle choices have had little impact, new British research has concluded. Drinking, smoking, being overweight and drug-taking haven't had any detrimental effect on the sperm quality of infertile men. Men with unhealthy lifestyles produced as much swimming sperm as those with more sensible attitudes towards life.
The rather surprising findings contradicted advice given to men who have struggled to conceive. Under current guidelines doctors are supposed to warn men diagnosed with infertility of the 'dangers' of alcohol, tobacco and recreational drugs. So its pretty obvious you can't keep a good sperm down
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2144909/Sperm-count-men-reduced-exposure-chemicals-environment.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2140795/Sperm-crash-walls-race-egg.html

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WHO say diesel exhaust fumes cause cancer...

English: World Health Organisation headquarters from west, Geneva. Français : Siège de l'Organisation Mondiale de la Santé, face ouest, Genève. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

We have long known diesel exhaust fumes are unhealthy - you don't have to be a brain surgeon to know they are in fact dangerously polluting the atmosphere right across the globe.
But now WHO, or the World Health Organisation, has come out of the closet and concludes diesel fumes cause lung cancer and possibly cause tumours of the bladder as well.
Its findings were based on research into high-risk occupations such as miners, railway workers and truck drivers.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-18415532
http://www.odt.co.nz/news/world/213033/diesel-exhaust-fumes-cause-cancer-who-says
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