Fertility and Pregnancy Concerns Related to Weight - Obesity

Author : Mary Leahy

There is a growing concern in the world today as obesity takes over. We are seeing more and more health problems due to obesity and a big concern and a critical one is Fertility.There have been reports that people who are obese may have fertility problems, one example is that men may have low sperm count.Women who are overweight or obese have greater health concerns. The health of the mother and the child are at risk. The following are some of the risk, they may suffer.1. infrequent menstrual cycles leading to increase risk of infertility.2. increased or higher incident of miscarriages.3. greater risk of high blood pressure which can further lead to heart problems for the mother or lead to fetal distress 4. greater incident of developing diabetes during pregnancy5. greater incident of having high birth weight infants 6. increase of high birth weight infants, leads to increase risk of Cesarean section.7. increase risk of having birth defectsAnother huge concern today is the health risk involved in having IVF treatments when obese.The BBC News reported The British Fertility Society is recommending women with a body mass index of 36 and over should not be allowed access to fertility treatment.However the NHS (National Health Service) guidelines say overweight women should be advised of potential health risk but dont ban the treatment. The health risk, for obese women during fertility surgery, is the concern that when extracting the egg, due to the excess fat, this excess fat may push the ovaries up higher, therefore making it harder for the needle to reach the ovaries to extract the eggs. As well, during the surgery the needle is guided by using a scan. It may be difficult to get a clear image of the ovaries as having to scan through excess fat which impedes the scan.Couples who want to start a family or have children but wish to have more, but have become overweight or obese, should look at improving their health and weight, before trying to conceive. To avoid disappointment and frustration trying to get pregnant, it is better to combat your weight and the best way is to look at a lifestyle change rather than a diet. By understanding your body, what foods cause you to gain weight and which ones help you to lose weight, as well as understanding portion size and when to feed your body, will help you in the years to come rather than a quick fix.Be healthy, not only for yourself, but for your family. Your children will want to have healthy happy parent and enjoy a full lifetime with them. Mary Leahy is a registered nurse with many years experience in nutrition and assisting patient and their families on the benefits of a healthier lifestyle. She also lived overseas working in a mutli-national hospital along side a variety of multi-national staff members. She had the opportunity to observe and study a variety of cultures and their eating habits. With the help of her husband they came up with this healthy eating program designed to help you understand food, lose weight and maintain a healthy lifestyle. http://www.mnb-weightlossprogram.com

Category : General Medical: OB / GYN

GPS: Cheat Sheet

Author : Simon Wyryzowski
Here are some machine-gun-quick reasons why you need to get yourself a GPS unit today!1. Time and money saving features (gas, travel time) far outweighs the price2. Good resolution, good screen quality without being a distraction3. Able to save information that you use often so you don't have to repeatedly add new information4. More than enough memory for the average users needs, usually has maps built-in or downloadable5. Portable in size so that you can use it as a mount for your vehicle, or even as a handheld (varies)6. Provides estimation as to when you will arrive at your destination7. Doesn't just give you a list of restaurants and other hotspots in general terms, but relative to your location gives you exact directions and time estimates8. Can configure what you want to AVOID: toll roads, highways, etc9. In conjunction with a satellite service, provides fantastic accuracy in helping you get where you need to10. Instead of printing out online maps and either having to make pitstops to read it or have a friend in passenger seat read instructions, the GPS unit will read instructions to you in crystal clear formatSo there you have it, some lightning quick reasons why you should go out and get yourself a GPS receiver today!GPS amplifier technologies will enhance your GPS units capabilities many times over. Get yours today!http://www.gpszoom.com/
Category : Computers-and-Technology:GPS

Network Marketing Success- The Success Power Boost for Your MLM Business

Author : Doug Firebaugh

There is something that I have been observing over the last
couple of years that seems to be a common problem with many
people in the Network Marketing industry.

Many people in Home Based Businesses and Network Marketing
operate their enterprises today with little or no Power of
Success in them. Strategies and tactics are very important in
operating your business, but even the best tactics of
prospecting and recruiting will not yield you the Success you
seek, if you lack the power to drive them.

It is the same if your car was running on half power, and you
were expecting it to accelerate quickly, and it does not. You
get out, check the engine, and see that everything seems ok, all
the wires are plugged in, battery seems ok, you have gas, but
yet it simply will not go any faster than 20 mph.

Why?

Your vehicle is lacking the “Power Boost” that it needs to go
faster, and get you to your destination. It’s pistons are not
firing correctly, the timing is off, and the spark plugs are
dirty and need cleaning, plus there is blockage in the fuel
lines.

Your vehicle is missing, and missing badly.

Here is my question: Is there Blockage in your MLM Success Fuel
line?

Many a Direct Sales and Home Business are 'missing" badly, just
like your car, and their Success Fuel Line is blocked and
“gunked up”. You do what you think is necessary to Succeed, but
yet, it does not go any faster It keeps missing and going slow,
and slower and slower.

You know what 'GUNK' stands for?

'Giving Up (and ) Never Knowing (Success).'

Many people give up on ever Succeeding and then pour their
'gunk' into others lives and dreams, slowing down their Success
Journey.

Sound familiar?

Your Vehicle for Success has it’s fuel lines blocked by the
“gunk” of other peoples’ input and opinions, and Doubt. Your
Home Business is missing one of the most important ingredients
for your Success Fuel to flow. It lacks the “Power Boost” that
makes Success accelerate and show up quicker and stronger. It
will get you up that hill of struggle quickly and successfully.

What would that "Power Boost" be and why is it a MUST??

The Power Boost is called DECISION.

Most people have never decided to Succeed, nor get serious about
their business.

Decision changes everything in Success and Network Marketing. It
changes and enlarges all the ingredients in your Success Pursuit
including:

1) Your Energy and Confidence. 2) Your Body Language. 3) Your
Tone in Your Voice. 4) The Look in Your Eye. 5) The
Determination in Your heart. 6) Your Presence you carry. 7) How
people respond to you.

How people respond to you can dramatically change when you
engage a Decision to Succeed massively in your Business. They
will be more attracted to your offer, as the new set of "Power
Boost" ingredients will be felt and heard, and people are
attracted to listen to people who know where they are going and
who KNOW THEY WILL GET THERE.

Do you?

Have you made a "Power Boost" Decision to Succeed in your
business, or have you just made a choice to "try this business?"
Decision will act like an engine cleaner, and will flush out all
that has been slowing you down, as your Decision is focused on
what YOU decide, not what others are saying cannot be done.

DECIDE TODAY. If you want to truly Succeed in your MLM Home
Business, then you need to make a Decision of the Heart, not a
choice of the mind.

"I WILL Succeed at my business, because today, I have decided,
that I will not be denied."

This one statement can radically change how people respond to
you, how people perceive you, and how people follow you. Your
Presence and Tone in your voice will change and become one of
strength, not weakness. This will be Magnetic to prospects.
People have a tendency to be attracted to and follow people who
have Decided to Succeed, not just try something to see what
happens.

Where are you with this? Plug your business into the Incredible
Power of Decision and clean out your MLM Success Fuel lines.
When you so this, you may be saying the same words and doing the
same presentation, but the prospect will hear a radically
different message with a radically different Power that is
totally MAGNETIC!

Blessings…..Doug Firebaugh PassionFire Intl MLM Success Training

Network Marketing Success © PFI 2005/ all rights reserved

You may reproduce with copyright notice attached

Category : Software

Capitalization conventions

Author : foottuns

Internet is often written with a capital first letter. The Internet Society, the Internet Engineering Task Force, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the World Wide Web Consortium, and several other Internet-related organizations use this convention in their publications.Many newspapers, newswires, periodicals, and technical journals capitalize the term. Examples include the New York Times, the Associated Press, Time, The Times of India, Hindustan Times and Communications of the ACM.In English grammar, proper nouns are capitalized, but whether or not the internet is a proper noun is disputable. Things whose status as a proper noun is debatable are handled inconsistently in English. For example, chess is not capitalized but Go generally is. Some analogous things, such as "the power grid", "the telephone network", and even "the sky", are not usually capitalized.Others are therefore content that the first letter be written small (internet). A significant number of publications use this form, including The Economist, the Financial Times, The Guardian, The Times, and The Sydney Morning Herald. As of 2005, many publications using internet appear to be located outside of North America although one US news source, Wired News, has adopted the lower case spelling. Leisure The Internet has been a major source of leisure since before the World Wide Web, with entertaining social experiments such as MOOs being conducted on university servers, and humor-related Usenet groups receiving much of the main traffic. Today, many Internet forums have sections devoted to neta; short cartoons in the form of Flash movies are also popular.The pornography and gambling industries have both taken full advantage of the World Wide Web, and often provide a significant source of advertising revenue for other Web sites. Although many governments have attempted to put restrictions on both industries' use of the Internet, this has generally failed to stop their widespread popularity.One main area of leisure on the Internet is multiplayer gaming. This form of leisure creates communities, bringing people of all ages and origins to enjoy the fast-paced world of multiplayer games. These range from MMORPG to first-person shooters, from role-playing games to online gambling. This has revolutionized the way many people interact and spend their free time on the Internet.While online gaming has been around since the 1970s today's style of online gaming began with services such as GameSpy and MPlayer, which players of games would typically subscribe to. Non-subscribers were limited to certain types of gameplay or certain games. With the release of Diablo by Blizzard Entertainment, gamers were treated to a built in online game service that was free of charge over Battle.net. With Blizzard's next game, StarCraft, the gaming world saw an explosion in the numbers of players using the Internet to play muliablo by Blizzard Entertainment, gamers were treated to a built in online game service that was free of charge over Battle.net. With Blizzard's next game, StarCraft, the gaming world saw an explosion in the numbeti-player games. StarCraft may have been the first non-MMO game in which most players utilized the online gameplay as opposed to the single-player gameplay. Recently with the release of World Of Warcraft (WOW) many users spend hours in a day trying to level up their characters.Many use the Internet to access and download music, movies and other works for their enjoyment and relaxation. As discussed above, there are paid and unpaid sources for all of these, using centralised servers and distributed, peer-to-peer technologies. Discretion is needed as some of these sources take more care over the original artists' rights and over copyright laws than others.Many use the World Wide Web to access news, weather and sports reports, to plan and book holidays and to find out more about their random ideas and casual interests.People use chat, messaging and email to make and stay in touch with friends worldwide, sometimes in the same way as some previously had pen pals. Social networking web sites like Friends Reunited and many others like them also put and keep people in contact for their enjoyment.Cyberslacking has become a serious drain on corporate resources; the average UK employee spends 57 minutes a day surfing the web at work, according to a study by Peninsula Business Services. A complex systemMany computer scientists see the Internet as a "prime example of a large-scale, highly engineered, yet highly complex system" (Willinger, et al). The Internet is extremely heterogeneous. (For instance, data transfer rates and physical characteristics of connections vary widely.) The Internet exhibits "emergent phenomena" that depend on its large-scale organization. For example, data transfer rates exhibit temporal self-similarity.This section is a stub. You can help by adding to it. MarketingThe Internet has also become a large market for companies; some of the biggest companies today have grown by taking advantage of the efficient nature of low-cost advertising and commerce through the Internet; also known as e-commerce. It is the fastest way to spread information to a vast amount of people simultaneously. The Internet has also subsequently revolutionized shoppingfor example; a person can order a CD online and receive it in the mail within a couple of days, or download it directly in some cases. The Internet has also greatly facilitated personalized marketing which allows a company to market a product to a specific person or a specific group of people moreso than any other advertising medium.Examples of personalized marketing include online communities such as Myspace, Friendster, and others which thousands of Internet users join to advertise themselves and make friends online. Many of these users are young teens and adolescents ranging from 13 to 25 years old. In turn, when they advertise themselves they advertise interests and hobbies, which online marketing companies can use as information as to what those users will purchase online, and advertise their own companies' products to those users. GeneralLiving Internet -- Internet history and related information, including information from many creators of the Internet.First Monday peer-reviewed journal on the internet Walter Willinger, Ramesh Govindan, Sugih Jamin, Vern Paxson, and Scott Shenker. (2002). Scaling phenomena in the Internet. In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 99, suppl. 1, 2573 2580. For more information visit www.nueva-design.com

Category : General Computer: Instruction

Poker Chips

Author : Max Bellamy

Poker chips are an essential ingredient of a poker game. They are special tokens that represent a fixed amount of money. Poker chips are also known as checks, especially in card rooms and casinos.Formerly economic units such as coins, gold nuggets, and gold dust were used in poker games. Ivory, bone, wood, paper, a composition of clay and shellac were the things used in the creation of chips. However, these plain-surface chips had a major problemindividuals could easily sneak in their own chips into the game. U.S. Playing Card Co. in Cincinnati, OH, holds the record for making the most expensive clay-composition poker chips from 1907-1939.Edge-spot patterns and complicated graphics are used in poker chips to prevent counterfeits. The process of making poker chips is very costly and is done on high-pressure compression-molding machines. Ceramic material with clay is added for texture and weight. The clay compositions used vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. The chips made for home use also vary from those made for casinos. In American casinos, the chips usually weigh between 9.5 grams and 10 grams each.Chips are manufactured with injection-molding technology, using ABS plastic. For weight, some chips are molded around a small metal disc, called a slug. All casinos have a unique set of chips. The custom color combinations on the chip edge (edge spots) are different for each casino. The commonly used colors in United States casinos to differentiate among chip denominations are white or blue for $1, pink for $2.50, red for $5, blue for $10, green for $25, black for $100, and purple for $500.With poker chips being a necessity for playing poker games, hi-tech poker chips may be a trend in the near future to provide a greater level of security. Poker provides detailed information on Poker, Online Poker, Poker Tables, Poker Chips and more. Poker is affliated with Free Online Poker.

Category : General Gaming / Casinos

Internet Explorer Shortcuts for Mouse-o-phobes

Author : Steve Singleton
If you're like me, you occasionally find the ubiquitous mouse inconvenient. Here are keyboard shortcuts for Microsoft's Internet Explorer (I.E.), the default browser for most personal computers in the business environment.Of course, learning them all would be far more trouble than it's worth. But as you scan through the possibilities, look for the tasks you do multiple times a day. Acquiring shortcuts for these repeated tasks makes sense, because you thereby improve your efficiency and reduce your unproductive mousing time. You may also find using the keyboard ergonomically more comfortable.I've divided the tasks into categories that seem to reflect the routine process we all follow when using I.E. Remember: Some of these only work in certain locations or sequences.Navigation
ALT+HOME -- Go to your home page.
ALT+D -- Select text in address bar.
CTRL+ENTER (cursor must be in address bar) -- Add "www." to beginning and ".com" to end of text entered in address bar.
F4 -- Display/hide list of addresses you've recently entered.
SHIFT+TAB -- Move back through the items on a Web page, the Address bar, and the Links bar.
UP ARROW -- Scroll backward through a document one line at a time.
PAGE UP -- Scroll backward through a document in larger increments.
BACKSPACE or ALT+LEFT ARROW -- Move backward one page.HOME -- Move backward to beginning of document.
TAB -- Move forward through the items on a Web page, the Address bar, and the Links bar.
DOWN ARROW -- Scroll forward through a document one line at a time.
PAGE DOWN -- Scroll forward through a document in larger increments.
ALT+RIGHT ARROW -- Move forward one page.
END -- Move forward to the end of a document.Window Management
F11 -- Toggle between full-screen and regular views of browser window.
CTRL+N -- Open new window.
CTRL+W -- Close current window.
CTRL+O or CTRL+L -- Go to a new location (URL address field).
CTRL+I -- Open/close favorites bar.
CTRL+D -- Add current page to Favorites.
CTRL+B -- Open Organize Favorites dialog box.
CTRL+H -- Open/close history bar.Searching
CTRL+E -- Open search bar.
CTRL+F -- Find on current page.Refreshing
F5 or CTRL+R -- Refresh current web page.
CTRL+F5 -- Refresh current web page even if time stamp for web version and locally stored version are same.Cut-and-pasting (same as in other Windows applications)
CTRL+A -- Select all items on current web page.
CTRL+C -- Copy selected item(s) to Clipboard.
CTRL+X -- Cut (remove) selected item(s) and copy to Clipboard.
CTRL+V -- Insert contents of Clipboard at cursor location (insertion point).Printing
CTRL+P -- Print current web page or active frame.Saving
CTRL+S -- Save the current page.Closing
CTRL+W -- Close current window.More keyboard, less mouse -- it often makes your Internet experience more of a pleasure and less of a pain.Copyright ©2005 Steve Singleton, All rights reserved.Steve Singleton has written and edited several books and numerous articles on subjects of interest to Bible students. He has been a book editor, newspaper reporter, news editor, and public relations consultant. He has taught Greek, Bible, and religious studies courses Bible college, university, and adult education programs. He has taught seminars and workshops in 11 states and the Caribbean.Go to his DeeperStudy.org for Bible study resources, no matter what your level of expertise. Explore "The Shallows," plumb "The Depths," or use the well-organized "Study Links" for original sources in English translation. Sign up for Steve's free "DeeperStudy Newsletter."
Category : Crafts

Evangelism Tactics Used by Naturalists

Author : Freddy Davis

Back in my college days, I used to play a lot of racket ball. I was never a world class player, but I probably at least won more games than I lost. There are a couple of different tactics that a person can use to try and win at that game. Some people are very powerful and can consistently hit the ball hard enough to get it past their opponent to win points. I was not by any means weak, but at the same time I did not have enough power to consistently win doing that. As a result, I had to use a different approach. I was more of a finesse player. My approach was to try be very accurate and hit the ball where the other player could not get to it. When a person is involved in an activity, whether sports or anything else where there are winners and losers, people develop tactics to try and outdo those they consider to be their opponents. This principle also applies to our beliefs. And in fact, this may be the most highly competitive arena in our world today. And not surprisingly, tactics are developed to accomplish this goal. Evangelical Christians make no secret of their desire to engage people of other belief systems and share the gospel with them. The goal is nothing less than to give them an opportunity to convert to faith in Jesus Christ. But it is not just Christians. There are many other groups who are well known for their evangelistic fervor. But what about Naturalists? Now this is a group that is not typically thought of as being evangelists for their beliefs. But in actual fact, this image can be quite deceptive. The reason they are not usually thought of as evangelists is that Naturalism is not normally organized into groups that give visibility to the evangelizers. Christianity is generally associated with a church that people are encouraged to join. Naturalism doesnt really have much in the way of organized groups. That being said, Naturalists are just as religiously zealous as Christians and work hard to get others to believe like they do. In order to promote their beliefs they actually use a number of different tactics which are designed to break down another persons faith and promote their own. Lets look at some of the major ones.Condescension One tactic is to look down on people who express a supernatural religious point of view. They characterize them as superstitious or needing a crutch. There is no intellectual element to this. It is simply designed to make the opponent feel stupid and helpless while making themselves feel superior.Intimidation A similar tactic to the previous one is intimidation. This is another maneuver which has no intellectual basis, but is simply intended to keep the opponent from fighting back. This tactic uses verbal or social pressure to try to make the adversary feel helpless.Ignoring the Faith Factor in Naturalism Since Naturalism is a worldview, its ultimate foundation is a set of faith assumptions. The primary one is that the supernatural does not exist. You would never get an admission from most Naturalists, however, that their belief is based on faith. They particularly like to boast that what they believe is built completely on observable fact and backed up by science. This simply is not true, but in most cases it is very difficult to get Naturalists to address the faith issues of their system. The Assumption that Naturalism is True Certainly every worldview assumes its own assumptions are true. But Naturalism tries to take one element of reality (the physical) and interpret all data in a way that eliminates the possibility that another worldview might be viable. Naturalism, though, is not the only worldview that has a high regard for physical reality. Our Christian Theism does as well. It is just that Naturalism asserts that Christians cannot legitimately interpret scientific data because they believe in something that goes beyond what science can analyze. There is certainly no objective basis for them to make this claim since Naturalism is also a faith position. But it is done just the same.The Assumption That Science Is the Domain Only of Naturalists This tactic emerges out of the previous one. Even though modern science was born out of the desire of Christian scientists to understand the wonders of Gods creation, Naturalists have tried to completely sever the natural and the supernatural to the extent that they claim science only for themselves. In doing this they simply dismiss the interpretations that Christians give scientific data if it conflicts with their Naturalistic views. In this way they try to marginalize the work of scientists who believe that God is the Creator of the material universe.Ignoring Problems with the Naturalistic Worldview There are some very serious problems with a Naturalistic worldview. Naturalism is unable to account for the existence of the substance that makes up the material universe, the existence of life, and the existence of human consciousness. There is certainly no shortage of attempts to come up with theories about how these things could have come into being. But they have not been able to come up with any demonstrable mechanisms which would give credence to a natural origin to these things. Typically if a Christian points this out, they will simply change the subject.Ignoring the Problems of Evolution It was Darwins theory of evolution that give plausibility to Naturalism when he proposed a way to connect this philosophy with physical science. At that point, people who wanted to be their own God had a plausible philosophy that they could hang their hat on. The only problem is, there are serious problems with the theory. There is no evidence that life is able to emerge from non-life. There is no known mechanism for how one species is able to emerge from another one. And there are many parts of biological organisms which are irreducibly complex and simply do not fit within Darwins theory. This tactic has gone so far that Naturalists have even gone to court to make sure that the problems associated with evolution cannot be taught in schools.The Equivalence of Evolution and Natural Selection Evolution and natural selection are not the same thing. Evolution proposes that life came from non-life, new species have gradually and steadily evolved from lower life forms and that consciousness has emerged from non-conscious matter. Natural selection, on the other hand deals with biological entities which already exist. This is the phenomenon whereby an entity changes in some ways to make it better suited for different or changing conditions. It is important to note that it is limited in how far these changes can go and that the changes are generally reversible if conditions change. The tactic here that Naturalists often use is to point to natural selection and say that it proves evolution. Actually, nothing could be further from the truth. They are two entirely different things.Putting Down Scripture One final tactic that we will look at relates to how Naturalists try to interpret scripture in a way that makes the Christian faith improbable. This often works with people who are not well versed in their understanding of the Bible. The only problem is, the Naturalistic interpretations themselves are way off base. In some cases they simply assume their Naturalistic presupposition that there is no supernatural and simply dismiss miraculous events that are recorded in the Bible. In other cases they take passages out of context or simply do poor interpretations to suit their own ends.Dealing with the Tactics of Naturalists It is sad to say, but a very large percentage of people who claim to be Christians simply do not have the knowledge necessary to detect and thwart the tactics that Naturalists use to try and discredit the Christian faith. But the answer to this actually lies in the statement of the problem. The fact is, Naturalism does not hold up under scrutiny. There are serious flaws. But if Christians dont know what they are and how to answer the challenges, atheistic Naturalism will continue to make inroads into society. Learning how to deal with this is not that difficult. But it does take some effort. Christians need to take the time and make the effort to learn about worldviews and to become well grounded in their own faith. With this, the tactics of Naturalists will literally become of no effect and we will have the ability to effectively share our own faith with those who dont know Christ. Freddy Davis is the Executive Director of MarketFaith Ministries; an equipping ministry designed to help Christians become more effective in their faith life using worldview training. Free worldview resources and contact information for MarketFaith Ministries can be found at http://www.marketfaith.org.

Category : General Religion: Christian