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A recent study reported in the Journal Fertility and Sterility suggests that being obese may reduce a man's chance to father children.
The study's participants were 87 healthy men, aged 19 to 48. Of these men, researchers discovered that those who were obese showed hormonal differences that may account to a reduced reproductive capacity. Obese men were found to have lower levels of testosterone in their blood compared to their thinner counterpart. Results showed, they have low levels of luteinizing hormone (LH) and follicle-stimulating hormone (FSH). The researchers explained, this is a "condition in which the testes do not function properly due to signaling problems in the hypothalamus or pituitary gland, two brain structures involved in hormone secretion.
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How do guerrilla marketers promote their marketing? Jay Levinson, best selling author and guru of guerrilla marketing has some advice and tips on how to market your marketing.
* Guerrillas do not limit their marketing on one medium. Levinsons advice is to market it all over the place. Anything worth promoting is worth cross-promoting.
* Cross-promote your marketing. Put your business website into your TV commercial. Mention your advertising in your direct mail and refer to your direct mail in your telemarketing. Trade shows are promoted in trade magazines and with fliers put under the doors of hotels near the trade show. They say in their Yellow Pages ad, Get even more details at our website.
Guerrilla marketers are realistic enough to know that people miss most marketing messages, so they repeat and say their message in several different places. Nothing is left to chance.
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Physicians have known for a long time that fatty liver disease can be related to alcohol consumption, diabetes and obesity, or the presence of hepatitis C virus infection. Another recently published study suggests that consuming high concentrations of fat and highly processed foods may be damaging to the liver even in the short term.
Swedish researchers subjected 18 volunteers to a four-week diet that includes two fast food meals a day and the adoption of a sedentary lifestyle aimed to increase their body weight and to determine the effect of high-calorie consumption on liver enzymes.
The study was successful in its purposes. Findings showed 17 of the 18 participants experienced a 5% to 15% increase in weight. The mean increase in weight was from 67.6 kg (149 lb) to 74 kg (163 lb). Thirteen participants developed pathologic alanine aminotransferase (ALT) levels in liver function. Elevated ALT levels were apparent after only one week.
According to an analysis of the third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, the prevalence of elevated levels of ALT or aspartate aminotransferase (AST) appears to be on the rise, as high as 7.9 percent in the US population in both men and women. Elevated ALT levels, according to the analysis, are strongly associated with features of metabolic syndrome. It may indicate that the liver is actively undergoing some sort of injury.
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A study reported an interesting connection between eating carrots and the risk of stroke. Researchers reviewed the diets of 87,000 nurses eating five or more servings of carrots a week than in those eating one or less a month. Results of this 1993 study showed 68 percent lower risk of stroke in nurses eating carrots than in those eating less. Carrots are rich in beta-carotene.
In another research, called the Physicians Health Study, researchers monitored a group of 333 doctors with angina pectoris and coronary revascularization. Subjects who were given beta-carotene supplementation at 50 mg on alternate days were shown to produce a remarkable 4 percent drop in all major coronary events and a 9 percent fall in cardiovascular problems, including stroke and death.. The results also suggest that beta-carotene may protect against heart attacks by protecting polyunsaturated fatty acids from oxidation, researchers analyzed
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U.S. Cancer Institutes head warns of possible health effects of long-term cellphone use such as brain tumors or cancer.
Dr. Ronald Herberman, director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute issued an unprecedented memo sent to about 3,000 of his faculty and staff. The memo said : Limit cellphone use because of the possible risk of cancer
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Stress , according to Hans Selye, is the "nonspecific response of the body to any demand."
Hans Selye, a world-renowned Canadian scientist and regarded as the father of stress theories, discovered that stress causes certain changes in the structure and chemistry of the body, some of which are signs of damage, others are manifestations of the body's adaptive reactions, a mechanisms of defense against stress.
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What characteristics must a successful entrepreneur have? Is one born with these entrepreneurial traits or can they be learned?
Douglas A. Gray, author of the best-selling "The Entrepreneur's Complete Self-Assessment Guide," lists some common characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, in which venture capitalists, psychologists, academics, and entrepreneurs themselves believe important to achieving success. Among these are
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Lawrence Pang, CEO of Tian - Strategic Marketing & Consulting Ltd., cites the difference of the traditional Chinese wisdom in marketing from the Western way of dealing business. He stressed, during his presentation at the first World Marketing Conference last June 20 - 21, that Western technology in the marketing world is more focused in laws, rules, regulations and power while in Asia, relationships, respect and people are given more value.
Several differences in the Eastern and Western way of doing business, according to what Lawrence Pang mentioned : In the East, feelings and family - orientedness are foremost than the West's rationality and individualistic manner ; the former focuses on people and it's internal strengths while the latter gives premium to the matter at hand and external forces that could affect the business ; the East gives importance to intrinsic harmony and the community while the West focuses more on external achievement and individual success
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The Mediterranean Union launched on Sunday brought 43 nations on the table aimed to work for a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction. The objective is to "pursue a mutually and effectively verifiable Middle East Zone free of weapons of mass destruction."
The nations, represented at the summit, include Israel, Syria, the Palestinian Territories and countries across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, agreed to "consider practical steps to prevent the proliferation" of weapons of mass destruction. The statement said that includes nuclear, chemical and biological weapons and their delivery systems
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There is an old saying : "The first generation builds the company. The second preserves it. The third squanders it." Some surveys show there are fewer than 5 percent of family-owned businesses that survive under control. Bestseller author Gurcharan Das, explains this phenomenom, "The first generation makes the money, and naturally and naturally wants to flaunt it. The second doesn't want more money, it wants power, the third generation dedicates itself to art, or more likely just squanders the fortune. The Kennedys, Rockefellers, and others illustrate this cycle," wrote the author of "India Unbound."
However, not all family in business is taking the same dismal route. Here's some tips from the book, "Managing Work And Career," by Josie O. Santamaria to couples who plan to start their own business or are running one
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