Thanks for visiting Dot Earth today and I hope you'll sift back for posts on enduring issues and concepts like the «population cluster bombs» that are the real peril
from high fertility rates; evidence that humanity's amazing, sometimes - exasperating diversity is perhaps our species» most adaptive trait; and the idea that when numerical goals seem out of reach, there's much that can be accomplished by fostering traits in society that guarantee some progress.
Not exact matches
Until recent years, factors such as
higher fertility and immigration have kept America
from following the starkly secular path of much of Europe.
In an analysis of financial data
from the decade ending in 2010, The Economist lists the world's most populous nation, and six African nations whose total
fertility rate is among the
highest in the world, as being among the ten fastest growing economies.
in the context of the present government policy of
high - tech development based on the global free market, the dalits, the tribals and the fisherfolk are increasingly getting alienated
from the Land, the Forest and the Water - sources respectively which have been giving them their living, and are also getting uprooted
from their habitat and culture; and women are commoditized and their sexuality,
fertility and labour are increasingly commercialized.
The region will be home to 42 percent of believers in the world by 2060, up
from 26 percent in 2015, due to
high fertility rates.
Generally speaking, the best pepper - growing soil has the following characteristics: a warm, full - sun location; well - drained loam or sandy loam
high in organic material but with moderate
fertility; a herbicide - free environment; little or no alkali; and a pH registering
from 6.0 to 8.0 (ideally 6.7 to 7.3).
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Fertility tests of the mice in adulthood showed that those whose mothers had been fed a
high - fat diet while breastfeeding had decreased litter size, longer duration
from mating to date of birth and impaired pregnancy rate in both female and male mice.
«Infertility linked to
higher risk of death among women: Penn study shows link between
fertility and overall mortality; infertility also linked to increased risk of death
from breast cancer and diabetes.»
Conard speculates
from the exaggerated sexual features that the 6 - centimetre -
high figurine might have been a
fertility symbol.
Other studies have shown that women exposed to
high levels of polybrominated diphenyl ether (PBDE) flame retardants common in cushions, carpet padding and mattresses — 97 percent of us have detectable levels of these chemicals in our bloodstreams — are more likely to have trouble getting pregnant and suffer
from other
fertility issues as a result.
High fertility also represents a disaster for the children themselves, who suffer
from profound under - investments in education, health and nutrition, and are thereby far more likely to grow up impoverished.
«Women could have had the best of both worlds — securing paternal investment
from a long - term mate and
high - genetic quality
from affair partners — but only if those affairs were timed at a point of
high fertility within the cycle, and probably only if their affairs remained undiscovered.»
Fertility tests of the mice in adulthood showed that those whose mothers had been fed a
high - fat diet while breastfeeding had decreased litter size, longer duration
from mating to date of birth and impaired pregnancy rate in both female and male mice.
Some of the choice quotes
from stories about a study interpreted as suggesting meat - eaters have
higher sperm counts read, «Vegans may be harming their chance of having children,» «A diet rich in fruits and vegetables may harm
fertility,» and «It is likely to play a factor in conception, particularly for couples who are trying to conceive naturally, the old - fashioned way.»
In the new study, which appears in the journal
Fertility and Sterility, Dr. Li and his colleagues collected urine and semen samples
from 218 factory workers, some of whom worked in facilities that make BPA or epoxy resin and were therefore regularly exposed to very
high levels of the chemical.
Ovulation predictors come in a variety of shapes and sizes, ranging
from urine - based ovulation tests to
high - end electronic
fertility monitors.
But when Flora breaks the most sacred law of all - daring to challenge the Queen's
fertility - enemies abound,
from the fearsome
fertility police who enforce the strict social hierarchy to the
high priestesses jealously wedded to power.
In fact the quiet is eerie; these are dogs with broken spirits - too scared to vocally protest and too disassociated
from their miserable existences to invite attention
from the humans peering into their cages... The dogs bringing the
highest prices will be those with proven
fertility records; already pregnant bitches are highly valued.»
fertility will come down
from high levels more quickly than expected; 2.
«Over,» formally titled «Overdevelopment, Overpopulation, Overshoot,» explores themes at the heart of this blog — the harms
from persistent
high fertility rates, consumption for consumption's sake, disregard for the environmental and social impacts of resource extraction.
And
high fertility rates — think doubled populations by 2050 — are increasing exposure to hazards far faster than a push
from greenhouse - driven heating of the global climate might.
About Blog Health & Parenting provides their users easy to digest, unbiased information
from fertility, to pregnancy accompanied by
high quality tools and graphics.
High - SES women may also be more effective at implementing lower
fertility preferences through contraception after learning
from negative parenting experiences (Ranjit et al. 2001).
The growing trend in multipartnered
fertility, along with
high rates of nonmarital births, means that many men are fathering children
from multiple women at a distance, 45,46 a trait that is associated with greater externalizing behaviours and poorer health among children.47
They expected thinking about their close social network to prime subjects to expect informal «free» childcare
from network members, reducing the perceived cost of children and encouraging
higher fertility intentions.