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Soy-based foods may lower sperm count (more in fat men)

he researchers found the association between soy foods and lower sperm count was stronger in overweight men, which might suggest hormones are playing a role. "Men who are overweight or obese tend to have higher levels of androgen-produced estrogen. They are converting a male hormone into a female hormone in their fat. The more body fat you have, the more estrogen you produce in your fat," Chavarro said.

Indigenous Land: Canada’s Toxic Storehouse

Lurking behind these efforts, so far away you can barely see it, there is a massive health crisis in Canada. According to a Treasury Board of Canada Inventory on contaminated sites, there are 4,464 toxic sites within the treaty territories of Indigenous People in Canada. That's roughly 1.5 sites for all of Canada's 2,720 Reserves - though in reality, some reserves have upwards of a dozen sites, where others have none. Here's the link to the inventory and directions on how to navigate.

Smoking ban considered for Vancouver beaches

Having a smoke at the beach may soon be an illegal act, if staff at Vancouver Coastal Health get their way.

'The Wisdom of Whores'

"Mother Theresa. She's a saint. Did she ever do anything to change the situation of people, to make it less likely that people were in need of rescuing? No. It's all over the Bible that you help people who are sick. But for some reason we do not translate that into it being compassionate to stop people from getting sick in the first place. "It's sin, retribution, redemption. It's associated with this deep-seated Judeo-Christian morality, but we also see it in the Muslim tradition. We don't see it in Buddhist countries, for example -- they've been extremely pragmatic for the most part in their response to HIV -- and we don't see it in Confucian societies.

YouTube - Vincedelmontefitness Brings You No Nonsense Muscle Building

Cool weightlifting program by vincedelmontefitness that offers you free training video's and a free ebook "20 ways to avoid screwing up in the gym" written by Vince Delmonte the man behind "no nonsense muscle building" and the Canadian champion fitness model.

Record number of babies born last year

"What this really reflects is that the population has grown so much in the United States, so you naturally expect more births," Ventura said. "It's hard to call this a baby boom at this point."

ACLU Sues Arpaio Over Racial Profiling

Having witnessed this with my own eyes and being white I know for a fact they are only racial profiling. While they would wave and smile at me as I held up my non-US purple passport they just drove by. And then I proceeded to copwatch to protect the rights of others. Good thing the ACLU, AZ govonor, Phoenix Mayor, Mesa Police Chief and other rights groups are getting involved. Sheriff Joe is also a human rights violator by his degrading treatment of prionsers in 120 degree heat in tents as well as making prisoners wear pink underwear and running a racket on the consessions at prisons full of asbestos that are unsafe for humans beings.

New Yorkers try to swallow calorie sticker shock

Putting the brakes on thoughtlessly inhaling calories is exactly the effect New York City health officials hoped the law would have. They say calorie labels could reduce the number of obese New Yorkers by 150,000 over the next five years, and prevent 30,000 cases of diabetes. New York is not the only city pushing calorie labels. New laws in Seattle and California's Santa Clara and San Francisco are scheduled to go into effect later this year,

Police probing reports of man targeting aboriginal women with date-rape drug

Vancouver police have confirmed they are investigating reports that a man using a date-rape drug has been targeting aboriginal women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. A man has been preying on the women at a particular bar and spiking their drinks, Marlene George, a longtime community worker at the Carnegie Centre, told CBC News on Tuesday.

HHS Moves to Define Contraception as Abortion

In a spectacular act of complicity with the religious right, the Department of Health and Human Services Monday released a proposal that allows any federal grant recipient to obstruct a woman's access to contraception. In order to do this, the Department is attempting to redefine many forms of contraception, the birth control 40% of Americans use, as abortion. Doing so protects extremists under the Weldon and Church amendments.

Losing Private Dwyer, War Hero

The photo below captures everything that Americans wanted to believe about the Iraq war in the earliest days of the invasion in 2003. Pfc. Joseph Dwyer, an Army medic whose unit was fighting its way up the Euphrates to Baghdad, cradles a wounded boy. The child is half-naked and helpless, but trusting. Private Dwyer's face is strained but calm. That story turned bitter years ago, of course. And the mountain of sorrows keeps growing: Mr. Dwyer died last month in North Carolina. He was 31 and very sick. For years he had been in and out of treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and addiction.

Sick orphan baby finds a family in Miami NICU

Before she learned how to smile or hold a gaze, Emma was given up twice - by her 23-year-old birth mother, a drug-user, smoker and drinker who knew she could never care for the baby, and by a 48-year-old adoptive mother who backed out when she learned of Emma's heart condition and of her own pregnancy by in-vitro fertilization.

McCain misses Medicare vote

Presumed Republican presidential candidate John McCain is the only senator who did not vote this week on a Medicare bill that halted doctor pay cuts but slashed billions in funding from private insurers.

Salmonella toll tops 1,000; peppers perhaps source

Ed Schultz said on the radio today that this was related to allowing Mexican truckers to bring more uninspected produce into the country. "More than 1,000 people now have become ill from salmonella initially linked to raw tomatoes, a sobering milestone Wednesday that makes this the worst foodborne outbreak in at least a decade. Adding to the confusion, the government is warning certain people to avoid types of hot peppers, too."

The Culture of Meat

Food safety scares as well as animal welfare, human health and environmental concerns have no doubt given Canadians many reasons to rethink where our meat comes from. There's just one problem: meat that may be safer (that which is healthier, more humanely produced and has less of an overall ecological impact) is not always readily available. This is especially the case in British Columbia. Prior to October 2007, it was legal for a British Columbian to show up at a farm and purchase meat from a farmer. That choice is no longer afforded to anyone because all meat sold in the province must now be processed at a federally or provincially licensed facility.