A Sperm Count Booster
Studies have shown that zinc can boost sperm count. It can certainly be taken in tablet form, but we’ve been told the body absorbs it more readily when it occurs naturally in food. With this yummy recipe you can sneak it onto your guy’s (aka, sperm donor) menu. It features two zinc rich foods: chick peas and tahini (sesame) paste.
Zinc-On-The-Sly Hummus Recipe
- 1 can chick peas (also called garbanzo beans)
- 1/4 cup tahini paste (found at any natural grocer)
- Juice of one lemon
- Two crushed garlic cloves
- Splash of olive oil
- Salt to taste
- Rinse chick peas in water. Combine all ingredients in food processor or blender until thoroughly combined. Serve with pita bread and veggies like cucumber, carrots and red bell pepper.
Try it!
The Cost of Fertility Treatments
The costs for wanting a child these days can be extreme, especially in the times of “economic crisis.” Not only are desiring parents facing emotional stress, but financial stress as well. The expense parents-to-be who are seeking fertility treatment face the high cost for fertility medications that much of the time are necessary during treatment, necessary and costly. Fortunately, it was reported by Fertility Authority that pharmaceutical companies are understanding the hardships individuals are facing and fertility drug companies like, EMD Serono, Ferring Pharmaceuticals, and Schering-Plough are offering discounts.
With new technology and increasing interest to seek infertility treatment it is important for prospective fertility users to research the financial aspects prior, by consulting your doctor & checking your insurance coverage. Whether or not you have insurance coverage the costs for fertility treatment range on the type of treatment performed.
For additional information click “Fertility Treatment Cost“
Take Advantage of Summer Weather
Summertime is for relaxing, enjoying the weather and catching up with friends & family…but what about using summer as the season to get back “in shape”? Summer is when we spend more time outdoors enjoying the sun. So lets say I take my own advice and start working out by walking or running outside …. what happens when winter comes and life feels more sluggish and I don’t want to walk or run in the snow and slush? I’ve been looking through magazines and came across Health Magazine that listed the best fitness equipment, and Lifespan Fitness was recognized for having the #1 Treadmill.
After getting advice from some people they either said join a gym or invest in a piece of fitness equipment. I’m in a dilemma because at one point in my life I was a member of the local gym and I did go regularly for about a year and then I just stopped feeling motivated. It ended up costing me a lot more money than I would have liked…since I stopped going I still was locked into a contract for 2 years…ugh I don’t want that again.
So narrowing down my options it seems like my best bet is to buy a treadmill.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
How Athletes Keep Bikini Bodies All Year Long
As many of us are working towards getting our best bikini bodies…I started to wonder what some professional athletes are doing right now to stay in shape. Take for instance one of my favorite NFL players – The Dallas Cowboys’ Terrell Owens. I mean look at this guys body, it is obvious that 
he is doing more than going to training camp when the Dallas Cowboys Travel to San Antonio, TX in the end of July for 2 weeks of training.
It was interesting to learn that T.O. has his own Youth Football Mini Training Camp from June 24 – 25th, and I was even more surprised to find that T.O. uses resistant band training to get such a ripped body – so it is not all about lifting hardcore weights.
T.O. certain does a lot to get ready for the Dallas Cowboys Games, but oh how we love to watch him play on Game Day!
Don’t let your vacation days go unused!
Found this awsome article on Digg, Don’t be a vacation martyr!
Studies show that nearly one-third of adults nationwide fail to take all their allotted vacation, leaving about three days per year unused. It’s a troubling trend that can harm your overall well-being. “Work may define who we are, but nobody wants to work all the time,” says internist Mark Kender, M.D., of Lehigh Valley Health Network. “Vacation relieves workrelated stress, which reduces your risk for conditions like high blood pressure, heart disease and diabetes.”
Check out the Digg, and read the rest – to help you prioritize your vacation time.
National Infertility Awareness Week
This week, April 25 – May 2, is National Infertility Awareness Week®, a movement sponsored by RESOLVE to raise awareness about the disease of infertility which affects 7.3 million Americans. Click, to learn more about infertility.
To help others understand infertility’s physical and emotional challenges FertilityAuthority is asking people to join their “ONE THING” campaign to raise awareness and de-stigmatize infertility.
If you could tell a non-infertile friend, relative, co-worker or stranger ONE THING about your struggle with infertility what would it be? To post your comments, visit Fertility Authority’s National Infertility Awareness Week page.
Fertility Authority was launched in late February by an all-female team led by media veteran, Gina Bartasi. It is the only web portal dedicated to fertility. A rich online experience educates women and men on the need to be proactive regarding their fertility and provides the tools and information to do so. Features include: best-of-breed content written by healthcare writers and journalists, vetted by reproductive endocrinologists; a robust interactive community of bloggers, columnists and message boards; a growing video library of patient testimonials; breaking fertility news; and proprietary databases of doctors, clinics and fertility professionals. Fertility Authority will also be introducing their e-newsletter, The Daily Shot, in a few weeks.
So visit Fertility Authority to share your “one thing” or to learn more about fertility issues, and know that you are not alone.
Yourway Transport meets special transportation needs in cornea transplant
I always found it so fascinating when watching transplant surgeries on medical shows and you see the helicopter land on the roof, and the guy runs out with a cooler into the O.R., but I always wondered if they did that for every type of transplant. They actually don’t. I found this interesting article about a company that handles the transportation of organs such as eyes.
Yourway Transport (www.yourwaytransport.com), a premium global courier that provides customized transportation solutions for special handling needs in the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and medical/healthcare industries, will exhibit at the Eye Bank Association of America’s (EBAA) Annual Meeting to be held at the Westin Seattle Hotel, June 17-20, 2009 in Seattle.
Yourway works with a majority of eye banks nationwide, meeting the special transportation needs involved in cornea transplant. Yourway will exhibit these special handling and customized transportation solutions at the EBAA Annual Meeting.
5 Simple Ways to Save Your Heart
How women can save their hearts. New research reveals that with a few lifestyle tweaks you can slash your odds of becoming one of the 8 million women with cardiovascular disease.
- Know your numbers – Do you know what your blood pressure was the last time you were at the doctor? If your doctor didn’t tell you that your blood pressure was high, don’t assume you are in the clear. Nearly 20 percent of people under the age of 35 have pre-hypertension (reading between normal 120/80 and 139/89) reveals research from the University of California, San Francisco. The study also found that these young adults were more likely to develop high blood pressure, or hypertension, over the next 2 decades than those who had healthy readings. At your next doctors visit find out your reading, and if your numbers are above 119/79, start making changes, such as lowering your sodium. Also consider the DASH (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension) diet, which has been shown to make a difference in two weeks.
- Go bananas - Research at Osaka University in Japan found that people who took in the lowest levels of potassium had a 35 percent greater risk of death from cardiovascular disease than those who got the most. Most women only get about half the 4,700 milligrams of potassium they need daily, and potassium is important for heart health since it works with sodium to regulate the water balance in the body, which promotes normal blood pressure. In addition to eating bananas, try eating halibut, tomato sauce, lima beans, or papaya.
- Get 8 hours of shut-eye – Harvard research reveals that people who slept five or fewer hours a night had a 39 percent greater risk of having heart disease than those who got at least eight. Sleep is crucial for the body to repair itself. According to Dr. Edward Suarez, at Duke University Medical Center, “Not spending enough time in bed means your body can’t repair the daily damage to cells and tissues. This can lead to inflammation, the immune system’s response to injury.” This build up of inflammation may cause fatty deposits to build up in arteries. Can’t find time to get 8 hours of rest a night, then try to find time to take a 30 minute nap at least 3 times a week. Not only will napping slash your risk of heart disease by one-third, it can also help to reduce stress levels.
- Make a peanut butter sandwich – Peanut butter is packed with magnesium; “Magnesium may battle harmful free radical molecules that attack the tissues, blood vessels, and heart,” says Dana King, M.D. Some other great sources of magnesium include beans, spinach, and artichokes. When eating your peanut butter sandwiches, be sure to eat it on a high fiber bread (at least 3 grams per slice).
- Rethink your birth control – The same hormones that prevent pregnancy (estrogen & progestin) may also make your blood vessels less flexible, and over time, raise your blood pressure. For instance, women who use the birth control patch have double the risk for blood clots versus those who take oral contraceptives. For most women, the benefits outweigh the risks, but if you smoke, have hypertension, or pre-hypertension, monitor your blood pressure weekly. It is important to speak with your gynecologist to find the properly birth control method for you.
This full article can be found in Shape Magazine February 2009 health report by Richard Laliberte.
Clinical Trials Logistics Conference Sponsored by Yourway Transport
At the Copthorne Tara Hotel in London (United Kingdom) Yourway Transport will be sponsoring Clinical Trials Logistics Conference May 20-21. The latest Yourway Transport press release stated that the conference provides attendees with insight of how other companies do their supply prediction/forecasting, how a drug product/API demand is forecast, and covers outsourcing, adaptive clinical studies.
Please visit Yourway Transport for additional information.
Attend Midwest Clinical Supplies Group Annual Conference
At the Arizona Grand Resort in Phoenix, Yourway Transport announced they are to be a sponor at Midwest Clinical Supplies Group (MCSG) Annual Conference April 2009. In the latest Yourway Transport press release it stated the conferences workshop topics include: oncology study design and clinical supply support for it, devices and drug combo challenges, process improvement/innovation and integrating systems for CTM, and more.
Please visit Yourway Transport for more information.