Re: U.S. Birth Rate Hits All-Time Low
- From: Florida <demeter547opine@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 30 May 2007 14:39:29 -0700
On May 26, 10:00 am, "Alvin E. Toda" <a...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
-SNIP-
The decline in teens and especially in childbearing
women means to me that at last, the women are in
control of having children. It's a good sign that
education is working, and we'll be having less social
problems with angry unwanted children. Or perhaps, it's
a bad sign that might indicate that the epidemic of
chlamydia which IIRC sterilizes women, is taking it's
toll in the lowered birth rate.
I agree, it's a good sign that we'll have fewer social problems
down the road. From the reported incidence of this silent epidemic,
it certainly looks like that you're right about Chlamydia being an
important factor for Americans' infertility.
As usual, it appears that we have to look for multiple causes for
such a large-scale trend.
I googled 'sperm count' this afternoon and found articles
suggesting that a) an analysis of 61 studies suggest that sperm counts
have been dropping in Western Europe and the U.S. since 1938 (some
related discussions questioned the size or composition of the earlier
studies), and b) (the one that surprised me), the drop in adolescent
pregnancy may be simply a warning that boys are becoming increasingly
infertile(!).
The persuasive factor was that studies from Scandinavia showed
that altho adolescents in Finland and Denmark hadn't changed their
sexual behavior in recent years (and there are no national campaigns
against teen pregnancy), they are also experiencing a precipitous drop
in teen pregnancies. Current researchers theorize that since there
are more sensititizing chemicals and more estrogens in the food chain
everywhere, it's not a failure of sexual development in the girls.
Some current study results were:
- urban boys had a larger drop in sperm count, except for boys on
farms who are exposed to pesticides and fungicides, etc., from an
early age.
- in general, boys from rural areas in the U.S., and rural areas
in third-world countries, have a much higher sperm count than urban
boys, especially the urban poor.
- a large number of sites (not just the vegetarians) warn that
meat of all kinds, but particularly beef, has become herbicide-,
pesticide-, chemical-, hormone-saturated nearly everywhere in the U.S.
and the third world where they can afford chemicals. Dairy products
aren't safe, either. The big meat consumers, the U.S. and
Scandinavia, now have the leading cancer rates.
- Europe's stringent laws against dosing meat animals with
chemicals have been effective in protecting them from certain cancers,
as have the generally lower consumption of meat per capita in southern
Europe.
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