China catches the fitness bug
August 2008
Fitness Tips For Life: It is said that hosting the Olympic games is an opportunity to showcase your country and this will lead to increased tourism over the coming years. Well China seems to have had another side effect to hosting the Olympics and that is getting more people interested in exercise and fitness.
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Perfume ‘risk to unborn babies’
August 2008
BBC News | Health | World Edition: Pregnant women are told that using perfumes may increase the risk of unborn boys developing infertility in later life.
Woman too fat for IVF loses weight and has baby
August 2008
That’s Fit: Filed under: Health in the Media, Obesity
In Britain, there’s concern over whether obese women with a certain BMI should be permitted to have In Vitro fertilization treatments covered under the National Health Service. When we told you about this last year, the subject sparked a lot of controversy.
But it’s also sparked some positive changes — especially for one woman. According to this article, 40-year-old Jane Crook was refused IVF treatment in 2006 because she was overweight at 378 lbs. But a short two years later, she was down 126 lbs. However, by then she didn’t need IVF — she conceived naturally. She lost the weight with help from gastric bypass surgery.
She lost the weight and had a baby — a happy ending on all accounts, don’t you think?Read | Permalink | Email this | Comments