HEALTH ISSUE: Children Attention

Low attention span in kids 

linked to pesticides 

Chicago: A new analysis of US health data links children's attention-deficit disorder with exposure to common pesticides used on fruits and vegetables.

        

           While the study couldn't prove that pesticides used in agriculture contribute to childhood learning problems, experts said the research is persuasive. "I would take it quite seriously." said Virginia Rauh of Columbia University, who has studied prenatal exposure to pesticides and wasn't involved in the new study. Children may be especially prone to the health risks of pesticides as they're still growing and they may consume more pesticide residue than adults relative to their body weight.

          In the body, pesticides break down into compounds that can be measured in urine. The study found detectable levels: The compounds turned up in the urine of 94% of the children. The kids with higher levels had increased chances of having ADHD, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder, a common problem that causes students to have trouble in school.

         The kids may have eaten food treated with pesticides, breathed it in the air or swallowed it in drinking water. Experts said it's likely kids who don't live near farms are exposed through what they eat.

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HEALTH ISSUE: EASY WAY OUT?

IVF may soon make most babies

More Accurate For Reproduction Than Having Sex: Report

          Couples may stop having sex to conceive babies within a decade and use in vitro fertilisation instead, sceintists say in a new report.

          Thirty somethings could routinely conceive babies using IVF within the next ten years because it will have become better than sex as means of reproduction, the scientists from Australia and Europe predicted.

          Advances in IVF technology mean it will be possible to produce embryos with a success rate of virtually 100% and cultivate them in computer-controlled storage facilities.

          The couples going for IVF have a much better chance of conceiving through IVF than young adults peak condition, who have only a one-in-four chance a month of conceiving naturally, according to the report.

           Among those over 35, the chance of natural conception falls to less than one in 10. Though modern fertility techniques have meant the healthiest couples already have a 50-50 chance of success using IVF, the authors of the new report say that this may just be the beginning.

          Gabor Vajta, an Australian vet and lead author of the report, worked with experts from the European Society of Human Reproduction and Empbryology and pointed out that test-tube embryo production in cattle was 100 times more efficient than natural means of calf creation.

          There is no reason, Vajta argues, why artificial human reproduction should not also become 100 times more effcient than the traditional precess of "trying for a baby".

         "We are not quite at that stage yet, but it's where we're heading. Natural human reproduction is at best a fairly inefficient process. Within the next five to 10 years. couples approaching 40 will access the IVF industry first when they want to have a baby, " the London Times quoted John Yovich, a do-author of the report, as saying.

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Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz - GETTING EVEN

Why does Kate

hate Cameron?

        Kate Hudson hates Cameron Diaz for dating. Alex Rodriguez. According to the actress , Cameronis trying to get back at her for sleeping with Justin Timberlake in 2007.

          Kate and Cameron are fighting over Alex. Cameronis dating the baseball star, which has infuriated Kate, who was in a relationship with Alex from May to December last year.

         According to a source, "Kate thinks it's pay back pure and simple. Cameron was actually in a serious long-term relationship with Justin. She thinks it's a joke and Kate would be mad. Kate is only upset because she hates being single."

         Now, the 31-year-old actress has started getting personal. and claims Cameron, 37, is an 'ageing' star who is struggling to keep her youthful looks. Recently, Alex is believed to have banned Cameron from coming to his games because he wants to keep things causal with her.

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