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A number of local stores have dedicated sections of large sized maternity-wear. It is observed that a large number of plus sized women are not comfortable wearing designs that are easily available in the market. Designers have woken up to such preferences and have come up with different patterns. These patterns are created keeping in mind the persons size, preference and expected comfort level. Manufacturers are attentive towards color combinations, necklines and materials. Apart from the local stores and malls, shoppers can find a wide range of plus size clothing online. Potential customers should enquire about the size-variations and patterns available, before finalizing a deal. At times, manufacturers offer to ship clothing to local outlets, for pre- purchase trials.

People can find stylish and contemporary petite maternity clothes with the help of catalogs, brochures and mail-ins. When searching for special sized dresses, potential customers should indulge in comparison-shopping. This helps them to analyze the designs, prices, return policies and company reputation. This can also help to locate discount offers, sales and closeouts that may be favorable. Nursing clothes can be made to order and are available with many designers. People are generally categorized and separated on the basis of their body type and even their body structure.

Fat loss and body building are two special dreams of an obese person. People love to spend time in doing regular exercises for staying fit and active. Over weight is said to be serious concern for every one. Before going for weight reduction, people should know about pro hormones. Prohormones are precursor compounds of hormones. These hormones are used by body, in supplying energy to its parts. Pro-hormones can be classified into three categories: andro-group, 19-nor group and testosterone boosting group.

Andro group hormones are converted by body into clean natural hormones. 19nor group hormones are converted by body into small anabolic compounds. Third group of compounds are not converted by body. They stimulate body and help it, in production of hormones for muscle building. These hormones also support fat loss. In past people had to do exercises for reducing their weight. Today that trend has changed. There are healthy energy drinks in market. These drinks consist of natural ingredients that help in reducing the weight and increase of muscular strength. Prohormones in convertible form are called as anabolic steroids. People generally prefer energy drinks when compared to medicines because; drinks easily dissolve in blood and flow into all body parts. They show quick reaction and start reducing unwanted fat of the body.

Nadya Suleman’s daunting future of raising octuplets into adulthood may best be understood by the exhausted but proud parents of other multiples and the researchers who study them.

And if there’s anyone who could give Suleman some frank advice, it’s a mom with five toddlers.

“There’s a lot of hype for the first few months and everybody is interested in how you’re doing, but the newness wears off after the first year,” said Jenny Ferrill, 31, of Danville, Ill. She and her husband, Pete, 35, are raising 2-year-old quintuplets. Four of the five children have lifelong medical problems and the Ferrills are falling behind paying bills.

She and other parents of multiples say they would advise the California mother of 14 that donations that seem plentiful now will taper off after the first year. Somehow free formula and diapers never morph into free shoes or forgiven medical bills. Requests for TV interviews dwindle. Offers to baby-sit, if they ever existed, vanish.

Next can come financial stress, emotional strain and marital struggles — although Suleman is single.

One German study of 54 families of multiples found that most were severely fatigued with worry about money problems, their children’s disabilities and chronic diseases. Nearly all the families relied on outsiders for help and financial support. Some felt guilty they had brought a burden on their families through fertility treatment.

A U.S. study of nearly 250 mothers found that for each additional multiple birth child — from twins to triplets, for example, or triplets to quadruplets — the odds of having trouble meeting basic material needs more than tripled. The odds of lower quality of life and increased social stigma more than doubled with each added child. And the risk of depression in the mothers also rose with each additional child.

“Parents really underestimate the enormity of the burden of providing care for multiple birth children, and this increases with the number of children,” said study co-author Dr. Janet E. Hall, a professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.

In focus groups conducted by the researchers, mothers who’d had fertility treatments described moral judgments from friends, and even strangers, telling them they had interfered with Mother Nature or God’s will.

These studies, among only a few on the topic, have led some experts to call for mental health screening or counseling for parents seeking treatment for infertility.

But fertility clinics don’t routinely counsel parents about the emotional and financial strains of multiple births, said Barbara Collura, executive director of Resolve, an infertility support group.

Suleman suffered intense depression after a 1999 injury during a riot at a state mental hospital where she worked, according to California documents. The 2001 birth of her first child “helped my spirits,” Suleman said in a psychological evaluation detailed in the documents.

In an interview on NBC’s “Dateline,” she said she always dreamed of having “a huge family” to make up for “certain connections and attachments with another person that I really lacked, I believe, growing up.”

Ferrill, the Illinois mother of quintuplets, said she’s seen several Suleman TV interviews and is concerned about whether the California woman can get over her admitted desire to have children to make up for the isolation she felt as a child.

“That’s a really heavy burden to put on children,” Ferrill said. “It’s your responsibility to give love to the children, not to have them give that to you, you know what I mean?”

The Ferrills received no counseling after fertility treatment — in their case, a type of artificial insemination and fertility drugs — resulted in more embryos than they expected.

“We went to a doctor specializing in selective reduction (reducing the number of embryos in a pregnancy), and he was one of the most cold-hearted men I have ever met,” Jenny Ferrill said.

The couple decided to forge ahead with all the embryos, and while they don’t regret their decision, Jenny Ferrill said it’s important that couples get counseling on “not just the medical risks, but how your life changes.”

The Ferrills have three boys and two girls. One of the girls had heart surgery as an infant and is healthy now. A boy has a chronic inflammatory throat condition that can make it difficult to swallow. Another boy needs physical therapy for abnormally low muscle tone. The other two children are highly sensitive to bright light.

Collura, of the Resolve support group, predicted the California octuplets may jar the industry to do more. Her nonprofit group will continue to educate families that a successful fertility treatment leads to a single baby, not twins, triplets or other multiples.

“We want a healthy outcome and that’s a singleton birth,” she said. The group began several years ago using stronger language emphasizing single babies. It’s published a 10-page article outlining the medical, financial and emotional risks of multiple births.

There were only 68 births of five or more children in the United States in 2005, according to the National Center for Health Statistics. Most are not the result of in vitro fertilization, Collura said, but other types of fertility treatment.

Keith and Becki Dilley of Decatur, Ind., have sextuplets who will turn 16 in May. All six — four boys and two girls — are starting driver’s education next week.

“They’re going to have jobs,” said Becki Dilley, 42. “That’s when they can have their driver’s license. They know they have to get good grades so they can get a lower rate on their (car) insurance.”

The Dilleys wrote a book titled “Special Delivery” about their sextuplets, the first surviving set in North America, which brought in only enough money to buy some appliances. Becki Dilley and her husband both now work full time.

Their schedule is dizzying. The children, all high school sophomores, are involved collectively in choir, jazz band, football and soccer. They all are on the honor roll.

The Dilleys had some couples counseling early on. “In the exhaustion of focusing on the kids, you can forget to focus on each other,” Becki Dilley said.

Her advice for Suleman? “Try to make time for yourself. Take it one day at a time,” she said. “Put down the camera every once in a while. Your kids don’t care if there’s not a picture of them dressed up as a reindeer.”

Ultrafine particles emitted by laser printers, especially during the process of printing, are potentially dangerous to human health because they can penetrate deep into the lungs.

Lidia Morawska, professor from Queensland University of Technology (QUT) led the study to answer questions raised by earlier findings that almost a third of laser printers emitted large numbers of ultrafine particles.

Morawska said the latest study found that the ultrafine particles formed from vapours which are produced when the printed image is fused to the paper.

“In the printing process, toner is melted and when it is hot, certain compounds evaporate and those vapours then nucleate or condense in the air, forming ultrafine particles,” she said.

“The material is the result of the condensation of organic compounds which originate from both the paper and hot toner.”

The study compared a high-emitting printer with a low-emitting printer and found that there were two ways in which printers contributed to the formation of these particles.

“The hotter the printer gets, the higher the likelihood of these particles forming, but the rate of change of the temperature also contributes,” Morawska said.

“The high emitting printer operated at a lower average temperature, but had rapid changes in temperature, which resulted in more condensable vapour being emitted from the printer.

“The printer with better temperature control emitted fewer particles,” she said, according to a QUT release.

Morawska said this research provided information which would help consumers better understand the risks of laser printers and would help the printer industry to design low or no emission printers.

Hair is exposed to harmful chemicals and radicals present in the environment. These chemicals lead to thinning hair. In order to prevent the hair fall you need good hair loss prevention products. This product will prevent hair fall and reduce further loss of hair.

If you have confusion in finding the best hair loss product, here are some of tips which can help you in finding the right stuff. But before that, you should know about the chemicals which damage your hair. Melanin supports hair root. Harmful chemicals like Ammonium nitrate, Nitric oxide and sodium sulphate show serious impact on this layer and damage it.

When this layer becomes weak, hair looses it shine and strength and gets separated from the melanin layer resulting in hair fall. Most of the shampoos you use consist of these harmful chemicals. They are used as conditioners in shampoos.

Hair loss can be prevented by using natural herbal shampoos. They will be delicate on your hair and help in getting sufficient nutrients. Besides herbal shampoos there are other herbal hair health drinks and medicines in the market. You can use them for preventing your hair loss. Before buying any hair loss product take the suggestion of your dermatologist.

In more good news for coffee lovers, a new study suggests that middle-aged adults who regularly drink a cup of java may have a lower risk of developing dementia later in life.

Whether coffee itself deserves the credit is not yet clear, but researchers say the findings at least suggest that coffee drinkers can enjoy that morning cup “in good conscience.”

The study found that among 1,400 Finnish adults followed for 20 years, those who drank three to five cups of coffee per day in middle-age were two-thirds less likely than non-drinkers to develop dementia, including Alzheimer’s disease.

The findings, reported in the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease, add to a string of studies finding that coffee drinkers have lower risks of several diseases, including Parkinson’s disease, certain cancers and diabetes.

No one is recommending that people start drinking coffee to ward off any disease, however. Researchers do not know if it’s components of coffee itself — like caffeine or certain antioxidants — or something else about coffee drinkers that explains the recent study observations.

The current study was an epidemiological one, explained lead researcher Marjo H. Eskelinen, which means it can point to an association between coffee and dementia risk, but does not prove cause-and-effect.

Still, “the results open a possibility that dietary interventions could modify the risk of dementia,” Eskelinen, a doctoral candidate at the University of Kuopio in Finland, told Reuters Health.

There are a few potential reasons why coffee could help stave off dementia, researchers point out. One reason is related to the fact that coffee drinkers may have a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, and diabetes, in turn, is linked to a higher risk of dementia.

Coffee also contains plant chemicals, such as chlorogenic acid, that act as antioxidants and may help protect body cells from damage over time. For its part, caffeine may have a protective effect on brain cells because it blocks receptors for a chemical called adenosine, which has depressant effects in the central nervous system.

More research is needed to determine whether coffee is truly protective, but for now, Eskelinen said, “those people who have been drinking coffee can still do so in good conscience.”

Yet another claim that a common and contagious virus is linked to some cases of obesity is in the news today.

Studies on humans show that 33 per cent of obese adults had contracted an adenovirus called AD-36 at some point in their lives, according to an article in the UK’s Daily Express, whereas only 11 per cent of lean men and women have had the virus.

The research, to be presented in a BBC television special, is not big news to scientists, however. Further, some worry that the portrayal of obesity as something you simply catch could obscure the fact that overeating remains the biggest driver of obesity.

The facts

The National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that about one-third of U.S. adults are obese, as are 16 percent of children and adolescents age 2 to 19.

Obesity increases the risk of heart disease, type 2 diabetes, stroke and other illnesses.

It is increasingly clear, several experts say, that viruses might play a role in some obesity cases. There are 49 known human adenoviruses. They cause everything from the common cold to gastrointestinal problems and eye inflammation, pneumonia, croup, and bronchitis.

AD-36 was first fingered as being possibly linked to obesity more than a decade ago. Nikhil Dhurandhar, of Pennington Biomedical Research Center in Louisiana, and a colleague made the connection in 1997 in research presented at an annual Experimental Biology meeting. That preliminary study of 199 people found that up to 15 percent of them carried antibodies to the virus, which provided indirect evidence that they once were exposed to the virus itself.

Prior to that, Dhurandhar had showed that another type of adenovirus that infects birds and is found only in his native India could induce obesity when it was injected into chickens.

In 2006, research led by Leah Whigham of the departments of Medicine and Nutritional Sciences at the University of Wisconsin, Madison found that another human adenovirus, AD-37, causes obesity in chickens. The results were published in the American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology published by the American Physiological Society.

Then in 2007, researchers found that AD-36 could transform adult stem cells obtained from fat tissue into fat cells. “We’re not saying that a virus is the only cause of obesity, but this study provides stronger evidence that some obesity cases may involve viral infections,” Magdalena Pasarica of Louisiana State University (and a colleague of Dhurandhar) said at the time.

Today’s claim

Today, Dhurandhar said it’s the spreading of the virus to other parts of the body that’s key to its ability to fuel obesity. “When it goes to fat tissue it replicates, making more copies of itself and in the process increases the number of new fat cells, which may explain why people get fat when they are infected with this virus,” he said in the Daily Express.

Other researchers point out that the prime cause of obesity is still likely to be environmental, as in what you eat.

“These associations may give some clues but they detract from the basic message that we all need to take more exercise and eat a bit less,” said Tony Barnett, professor of medicine at the University of Birmingham.

And as if all this isn’t confusing enough, a study earlier this month suggested that exercise, despite its many benefits, it not as important in avoiding obesity as is a better diet.

When male mice live with female mice, their reproductive years are extended by up to 20 percent, a new study finds.

A similar effect might or might not occur in humans - it has yet to be tested - but the finding has “significant implications for the maintenance of male fertility in wildlife, livestock and even human populations,” the researchers say.

The scientists housed one group of male mice with females for up to 32 months, while the others were forced to live like monks. Each of the males was placed with a female at two-month intervals to see if they could get the job done. The males that lived constantly with females stayed fertile for six months longer, on average.

The decline in fertility appeared to be due in part to defects in the sperm-production process, the researchers figure.

“It appears that housing females with a male mouse delays the decline of reproductive processes at the cellular level by somehow affecting the cells surrounding the stem cells that produce spermatozoa in the testes,” said study leader Ralph Brinster at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine.

The finding was detailed this week in the journal Biology of Reproduction.

“The effect may occur in any species,” Brinster told LiveScience. “One does not know without controlled experiments.” And that presents a problem. “It would be extremely difficult, probably impossible, to study directly in humans,” he said.

If this reproductive effect occurs in livestock, it could suggest ways to extend the mating life of males, Brinster said, adding that “this finding may also have relevance for the protection of some large endangered species.”

Children who do not have health insurance and no regular source of health care are the most likely to have unmet medical needs, researchers at the University of Michigan C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital report.

The findings show that the government needs to do more to safeguard the health of vulnerable children, said the researchers, who noted the number of children with unmet medical needs increased from 4.5 million in 1998 to 6.2 million in 2006.

The analysis of U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data showed that:

• From 1998 to 2006, there was an increase in the proportion of children enrolled in public programs and a decrease in the proportion with private insurance.
• The rate of uninsured children remained at about 10 percent between 2002 and 2006, but the proportion of uninsured children with no usual source of care (USC) increased to 23 percent in 2006.
• Hispanic children now account for the largest proportion of uninsured children and those with no USC.
• Private medical practices continued to be a USC for the majority of children, regardless of insurance status. However, there’s been a recent decrease in the rates of uninsured and SCHIP-enrolled children who have a private practice as a USC.
• Uninsured children and those with no USC are more likely to have unmet medical needs than privately insured children with a USC.
• Publicly insured children are twice as likely to have unmet medical needs as children with private insurance.

The findings, published in the February issue of Pediatrics, show that government programs such as Medicaid, the State Child Health Insurance Program (SCHIP), and the President’s Health Center Initiative don’t fully address the health-care needs of the most vulnerable children, said lead author Dr. Leesha K. Hoilette, a pediatric health services research fellow in the Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit in the U-M Division of General Pediatrics.

“As the nation continues to focus on the future of health care, and, in particular, health care for children, it seems insufficient to focus policy efforts on either health-care coverage or access alone. Initiatives must be targeted in tandem to increase both coverage and access to reduce unmet medical need,” Hoilette said in a U-M news release.