Month: November 2011

Healthy male diet improve success of in vitro fertilization

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(Reuters) – the chances of fertilization success

in vitro (IVF) increase if men take a diet

healthy, high in fruits and grains, and low in meats

rojas, alcohol and coffee, revealed a Brazilian study on the

quality of male semen.

While the female reproductive problems have

linked to body weight, smoking and the consumption of

alcohol, not was unclear whether the same was the case with men

couples seeking fertility treatments

“The sperm concentration was influenced

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negatively by index (BMI) body mass and consumption

alcohol, and was positively influenced by consumption

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of cereals and the amount of daily meals”, said Edson

Borges, of the Center for fertility and assisted fertilization of

Sao Paulo, in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

“The motility of the sperm also saw

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negatively influenced by the IMC, the consumption of alcohol and

the habits of smoking, while he was positively

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influenced by the intake of fruits and cereals”, added the

expert.

The BMI is a measure of weight in relation to your height

of a person.

The study included 250 men who, with his partners,

being a type of treatment in a centre of

fertility called intracytoplasmic injection of

sperm (ICSI for its acronym in English).

The researchers consulted men with what

frequency ate a number of foods, including fruits and

vegetables, grains, cereals, meat and fish, as well as how much

they drank and smoked.

The team also obtained samples of semen of males

to analyze how healthy and well concentrated were their

sperm, as well as registering was how each step

the process of IVF in each pair.

In about three-quarters of the eggs treatments

were successfully fertilized, and slightly less than four of each

10 women were pregnant during the study.

From the speed of his sperm up the

possibilities for their partners to become pregnant, men

with the worst diets were adversely affected in the treatment

fertility, indicated the authors.

Being overweight and drink alcohol was related to a minor

sperm concentration and motility, which is the ability of

swimming sperm while smoking linked

only with negative effects on motility.

Alcohol and coffee intake is associated with a minor

possibility of fertilization.

Also, the embryo implantation and pregnancy rates

they were much lower when the men ate much meat

red.

On the other hand, eat more grain – like wheat, oats and

barley – became associated with better concentration and motility of

sperm. The fruit was linked to improvements in the

speed and agility sperm.

“Talk about having a healthy lifestyle and treat of

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remove any of these things that are bad for health,

but I think that the emphasis tends to be to ensure that the

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woman is as healthy as possible”, said Lynn Westphal,

health and women’s Medical Center fertility specialist

from Stanford University in California.

“I think that this information is really interesting, already

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that the factors of lifestyle of men, even

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when an ICSI is performing, are important”, he added.

The results correspond with the idea that certain

vitamins, minerals and amino acids help maintain or

improve the quality of the semen, while over-consumption

certain hormones of processed meat and alcohol could be

harmful to sperm, wrote Borges.

In couples undergoing fertility treatments

both men and women should know that their

diets and lifestyles affect their chances of

achieve a successful pregnancy, ended the researcher.

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UNEP: Controlling global temperature requires acting against industrial gases

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Nairobi, 21 nov (EFE).-controlling the rise of global temperatures requires urgent action against a group of chemicals increasingly used, as the industrial gases known as HFCs (hydrofluorocarbons), warned today the United Nations programme for the environment (UNEP).

Los HFCs, which could make the temperature to rise by more than two degrees in the 21st century, used “air conditioning, refrigerators, material against fire and insulating foams machines”, and replaced more and more often to those who have been banned to protect the ozone layer, UNEP said in a statement issued from its headquarters in Nairobi.

UNEP today presented a report according to which by the year 2050 HFCs could cause the emission of 3.5 billion tons and 8,500 million tons of carbon dioxide, comparable to the current annual issue of the means of transport (about 6,000 or 7,000 million tonnes).

This report, entitled “HFC: link key in la protection of the climate and the layer of ozone”, is the first of the three that it intends to present UNEP this week, on the occasion of the Summit of climate change (COP 17) UN to be held in Durban (South Africa) from November 28 to December 9.

“More than 20 years of international effort to save the ozone layer is one of the best examples of cooperation between Nations,” which meant the removal of chlorofluorocarbon (CFC) in 2010, said today the executive director of UNEP, Achim Steiner.

However, said Steiner, Nations now have come to use HFCs, “Although not damaged and practically the ozone layer, yes causing a greenhouse effect”.

According to the head of UNEP, “the good news is that today there are alternatives,” do not use HFCs, as designing homes for the air conditioning is not necessary to use fiber instead of foam to insulate buildings. EFE

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Ministers of Amazonian countries will discuss projects of regional development

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Manaus (Brazil), 21 nov (EFE).-Ministers and delegates from Bolivia, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Guyana, Peru, Suriname and Venezuela, which form the Organization of the Treaty for Amazonian Cooperation (OTCA), will discuss tomorrow development projects in that region, which possesses one of the most sensitive and threatened the planet’s ecosystems.

The XI meeting of Ministers of Foreign Affairs of the Member countries of the OTCA will be held in the Brazilian city of Manaus, in the heart of the greater lung vegetable in the world, and will also serve to ensure that the Amazon countries cotejen their positions with a view to the Summit on climate change (COP-17) to be held in Durban (South Africa) starting next week.

Also the encounter will be the first opportunity for representatives of the eight countries that share the Amazon to discuss his proposals for the Conference on development sustainable Río+20 to Brazil and the UN will be organized in June of next year, as they explained official sources Brazilian.

Beyond these forthcoming international appointments the Ministers of the OTCA should make a review of actions taken by each country within the framework of the strategic Agenda for the Amazon region, adopted in Lima by this body last year regional.

This document puts forward various goals, especially in terms of environmental protection but also of support for indigenous peoples in the areas of health and education, and sustainable development in various industries, with special emphasis on adventure tourism and profile ecological.

Although the preservation of the ecosystem is one of the key goals of the strategic Agenda, this paper also proposed measures of social to improve the lives of the 34 million people which has the region, of which 25 million live in the Brazilian, part which is the more extensive.

According to a recent report of the joint Regional Amazon (ARA), a network of eight countries, social movements during the last decade there have been important social advances but inequalities, labour informality and deficiencies in health and education services persist throughout the region.

“The Amazon remains marginalized socio-economic benefits and national development in each of the countries of the basin,” says the study prepared by the ARA, reported the week past.

At the environmental level, argues that “none of the Amazon countries has been able to” control predation generated by the growing activity of legal or illegal industries, as well as the loss of forests caused by projects State.

Among recent cases are inscribed the recent conflict between the Bolivian Government and indigenous peoples who were opposed to a road which would be built with Brazilian through an ecological sanctuary funding or protests in Brazil against the hydroelectric plant of Belo Monte, which will be built in the jungle Amazon.

Within the framework of the eleventh meeting of the Ministers for Foreign Affairs of the OTCA in Manaus will be held on Wednesday a forum on sustainable development which will bring together experts in environment of the eight countries.

Both the ministerial meeting and the seminar will be made in a hotel located in the middle of a dense forest and on the shores of the Black River, the largest tributary of the Amazon, which is in turn the longer and more plentiful in the world and with the forest that surrounds it just be declared as one of the seven wonders of nature. EFE

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AIDS infection was reduced by 21 percent between 1997 and 2010, according to UNAIDS

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Berlin, 21 nov (EFE).-the cases of AIDS infection were reduced by 21% between 1997 and 2010, to 2.67 million worldwide, according to the report of the United Nations programme for AIDS (UNAIDS), widely used today in Berlin.

The number of new infections in children dropped to 390,000, compared the 550,000 in 2001, while the number of deaths in children under 15 declined between 2005 and 2010 a 20 per cent.

Although approximately half of pregnant women with the AIDS virus received antiretroviral drugs to prevent the spread of their babies, in 80% of cases the treatment was not optimal, it warned UNAIDS.

According to the report, the number of infected worldwide with the virus of AIDS and those who developed the disease amounted at the end of 2010 to 34 million, compared to 28.6 billion in 2001.

About 68% (22.9 million) occurred in the African continent, South of the Sahara, a region that lives only 12% of the world’s population, but concentrated 70% of new cases of infection with the AIDS virus.

South Africa, with 5.6 million cases, is the country in which they live most infected with AIDS, syndrome though the number of new infections was reduced significantly, as in Ethiopia, Nigeria, Zambia and Zimbabwe, said the paper.

On the contrary, the number of infections in Eastern Europe and Central Asia increased between 2001 and 2010 by 250% up to 1.5 million cases, of which 90% was concentrated on Russia and Ukraine.

The number of deaths from AIDS in the region stood at about 90,000, versus the 7,800 in 2001.

As long as the number of infected in Central and Western Europe is situated in around 840,000, with 30,000 new infections and 9,900 deaths

Last year were killed around the world 1.8 million people as a result of AIDS.

According to estimates by UNAIDS, antiretroviral drugs prevented other 700,000 deaths.

Since 1995, drugs have saved the lives of 2.5 million people infected with the virus of HIV/AIDS in low and middle income countries where about half of those infected has meanwhile access to therapies ARVs.

Health care is especially good in countries such as Cambodia, Chile, Croatia and Cuba, on the contrary that in States such as Afghanistan, Egypt, Tunisia and Ukraine, indicates the document.

According to UNAIDS, education, prevention and the strengthening of the rights of women continue to be measures important in the fight against this disease still incurable in the absence of a vaccine.

A man performs the test of AIDS in the fishing village of Igabilo, in Tanzania, where the rate of AIDS in the population is 15 percent. EFE/file

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One million Zimbabweans will find it difficult to feed, according to the UN

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Johannesburg, 21 nov (EFE).-the World Food Programme (WFP) warned today that more than one million Zimbabweans will find it difficult to feed during their summer season, according to the Organization through a press release.

According to the report of vulnerability of rural environments of Zimbabwe of WFP (ZIMVAC), 12 per cent of the rural population of the country will go hungry during the austral summer, from December to March, due to the drought in the East and South of the country regions.

“Agricultural production in these areas has once again become very low.” “This situation is aggravated by the economic crisis, and we have already seen families who are forced to eliminate meals or reduce rations”, stated in his statement the director of the WFP for Zimbabwe, Felix Bamezon.

The United Nations food programme ensures that he is why you need $ 42 million additional addressing the situation of lack of the next few months.

The WFP explained that the Organization has already begun to assist the affected population, with the distribution of food, bonds of food and cash to supply to the families.

While the funds for the response plan are already insured, the organization points out that he needs more contributions in the face of the summer season.

“It is necessary to carry out long-term investments in agriculture and food storage, but the most urgent thing is currently providing assistance to the most vulnerable,” added Bamezon. EFE

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Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips

Surah Al-Rehman – The Ultimate Free Remedy for Incurable Diseases

(By Listening Only- 20 Minutes Only)

Kindly download the Surah “AL-REHMAN” (recited by Qari Abdul Basit without translation) from here.


Treatment Plan

Just Listen to it three times a day (morning, afternoon, evening) for seven consecutive days using following procedure:-


    Before listening:

  • Close your eyes
  • Feel your self in front of ALLAH Almighty/ God
  • Then listen to it with greater concentration and closed eyes

    When the recitation/ AUDIO is finished:

  • Open your eyes and take half glass of water
  • Close your eyes again and say “ALLAH” three times in your heart with deep affection/ love
  • Then drink the water with closed eyes in three sips