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Mobile phones damage sperm

Categories: Lifestyle research

Radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation (RF-EMR) in the range emitted by mobile phones can cause damage to human spermatozoa. When an Australian team exposed sperm to RF-EMR they found that their motility and vitality were significantly reduced, while mitochondrial generation of reactive oxygen species and DNA fragmentation were significantly elevated. The researchers conclude that their finding ...

Smoking marijuana and tobacco increases COPD risk

Categories: Lifestyle research

Smoking both tobacco and marijuana increases the risk of developing respiratory symptoms and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Canadian clinicians surveyed a random sample of 878 people aged 40 years or older living in Vancouver about their respiratory history and their history of tobacco and marijuana smoking. Concurrent use of marijuana and tobacco was associated with increased risk ...

Fertility drugs increase cancer risk

Categories: Lifestyle research

Ovulation-inducing drugs may increase the risk of women later developing uterine cancer. Israeli scientists have compared cancer incidence in a group of 15,030 Israeli women 30 years after they gave birth. Of the 567 women who had been given ovulation-inducing fertility drugs, five developed uterine cancer, which is about three times the incidence of members of the group who had not been given the ...

HRT shrinks the brain

Categories: Lifestyle research

A US-study has suggested that some forms of post-menopausal hormone replacement therapy (HRT) can cause brain areas involved in thinking and memory to shrink slightly. The researchers carried out brain scans on 1,400 women aged 71 to 89 who had taken part in an earlier HRT trial. They found that two key areas of the brain were smaller in women who had taken conjugated equine oestrogen orally than ...

Telly watching doubles asthma risk

Categories: Lifestyle research

Children who spend more than two hours a day watching TV have double the risk of developing asthma, a UK study has found. 3,000 children were tracked from birth to age 11. Their parents were questioned annually about incidence of wheeze and diagnosed asthma among their children. They were also asked to assess children's television viewing habits from age three-and-a-half onwards. None of the child ...

Mild obesity takes years off your life

Categories: Lifestyle research

Being moderately overweight can reduce lifespan by two to four years, according to a major new study of obesity and mortality carried out in the UK. The huge collaborative study pooled data together data from 57 studies involving almost 900,000 people, mostly from Europe and North America. The results showed that people whose BMI was higher than 25 had shorter lifespans on average. Those with a BM ...

Nature benefits the brain

Categories: Lifestyle research

US researchers exploring the cognitive benefits of interacting with nature have found that walking in a park in any season, or even just viewing pictures of nature, can help improve memory and attention. They compared the restorative effects on cognitive functioning of interactions with natural versus urban environments. Participants walked on an urban route or through botanical gardens before und ...

Female hormones linked with unfaithfulness

Categories: Lifestyle research

Young women with high levels of oestrogen are more likely to be serial monogamists or to cheat on their partners and also see themselves as more attractive than other women, according to an American psychologist. Two salivary samples were taken from 52 normally cycling female university students at two points in their menstrual cycle. At both testing sessions, participants completed self-perceived ...

Fertile women more susceptible to being chatted up

Categories: Lifestyle research

French psychologists have found out that women are most likely to give their phone number to a male stranger when they are most likely to get pregnant. Researchers recruited handsome young men to chat up women on a street corner, in order to determine whether fertility affects receptivity to male advances. Less than a minute after the encounter, a female researcher approached the women, revealing ...