Cellphone in trouser pockets affects male fertility

Cellphone in trouser pockets affects male fertility

Cellphone in trouser pockets affects male fertility

If you keep your cell phone in your trouser pocket, beware. It is extremely dangerous for you and may jeopardize your chances of becoming father.

Cellphone in trouser pockets affects chance of becoming father. So you should take utmost precaution in this regard.

If you keep your cell phone in your trouser pocket, beware. It is extremely dangerous for you and may jeopardize your chances of becoming father.

These days people want to keep more and more powerful smartphones in their pockets. Many of us are not satisfied with using one handset and are using huge sized multiple handsets. And most of the people find their trousers pockets the best place to keep that expensive handset(s).

Now a latest study says that it may affect a person’s chance to becoming father if the handset is kept in trouser pocket over a long period of time.

Fiona Mathews a professor of biosciences atUniversity of Exeter in Britain says, “This study strongly suggests that being exposed to radio-frequency electromagnetic radiation from carrying mobiles in trouser pockets negatively affects sperm quality…This could be particularly important for men already on the borderline of infertility, and further research is required to determine the full clinical implications for the general population”.

The report says that as many as many as 14 percent of couples in high and middle income countries have difficulty in conceiving. The researchers who were led by Mathews conducted a systematic review of the findings from 10 studies, including 1,492 samples.

They say that they measured the sperm quality in three different ways including motility, viability and concentration. In control groups, 50-85 percent of sperm have normal movement. They concluded that this proportion fell by an average of eight percentage points when there was exposure tomobile phones. Similar effects were seen for sperm viability.

Father’s Drinking Habits May Alter Son’s Genes

Do you regularly drink to excess? Even before conception, a son’s vulnerability for alcohol use disorders could be shaped by a father who chronically drinks to excess, a significant study indicates.

“It is possible for alcohol to modify the dad’s otherwise normal genes and influence consumption in his sons, but surprisingly not his daughters,” said senior investigator Gregg Homanics, a professor at University of PittsburghSchool of Medicine in the US.

In lab settings, male mice that were chronically exposed to alcohol before breeding had male offspring that were less likely to consume alcohol and were more sensitive to its effects.

Previous human studies indicate that alcoholism can run in families, particularly father to son, but to date only a few gene variants have been associated with “Alcohol Use Disorder” and they account for only a small fraction of the risk of inheriting the problem, Homanics said.

“We examined whether a father’s exposure to alcohol could alter expression of the genes he passed down to his children,” Homanics added.

For the study, researchers chronically exposed male mice over five weeks to intermittent ethanol vapour, leading to blood alcohol levels slightly higher than the legal limit for human drivers. Then, they mated them to females who had not been exposed to alcohol.

Compared to those of ethanol-free sires, adult male offspring of ethanol-exposed mice consumed less alcohol when it was made available and were less likely to choose to drink it over water.

The researchers plan to examine other drinking models such as binge drinking, identify how alcohol modifies the genes and explore why female offspring appear unaffected

Dangote invests in the plan to fight Boko haram

Africa's Richest Man To Invest $2.3 Billion In Plan To Fight Boko Haram

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Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, has announced plans to invest $2.3 billion in rice and sugar production in Nigeria’s northern region in a bid to combat poverty and insurgency.

Dangote, who was speaking today during a plenary session at the World Economic Forum currently being held in Abuja, Nigeria, said that creating jobs was a crucial way of putting an end to the insurgency that has plagued the northern region in the last few years. Nigeria’s northern region has been a base for terrorist camps, particularly the Boko Haram Islamic sect, which recently claimed responsibility for the kidnap of more than 200 school girls from a Government-owned High school in Chibok, Borno state in Nigeria.

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Dangote, who is worth $24.5 billion also announced to the forum that his company would invest $16 billion in Africa over the next four years, with the bulk of the money -$12 billion to be invested in Nigeria.

In a related development, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang has promised further investment in Africa. Speaking during a keynote address during the forum earlier today, Kegiang announced that China had set aside $2bn for an African Development Fund and promised delegates that China’s support for Africa was non-conditional, stating that the country would not interfere in the internal affairs of African countries.

The World Economic Forum on Africa is taking place in Abuja, Nigeria from the 7th – 9th of May.