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Drinking from beer can, plastic bottles may make you sterile
From IKE NNAMDI, The SunCorrespondent, New York
Friday, November 13, 2009
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Nigerian men who are unable to make babies could be paying the price for drinking from plastic bottles, beer cans and beverage containers. A new report links exposure to a chemical known as BPA to growing incidents of male sterility in the country and other parts of the world. The chemical is widely used in hard plastic bottles.
The U.S. government recently announced new funding for research into BPA's effects. BPA is used in a wide variety of consumer products, including some hard plastic bottles and metal food or beverage cans. Several makers of baby bottles recently said they had stopped using the chemical. Some 90 percent of the U.S. population carries detectable levels in the urine and scientists are concerned that BPA exposure might harm the reproductive and nervous systems, and possibly promote prostate and breast cancers. Last year, a preliminary study linked BPA to possible risks for heart disease and diabetes.
The Food and Drug Administration concluded last year that trace amounts of BPA that leak out of bottles and food containers were not dangerous. But the FDA is now reviewing that stance after criticism from its scientific advisers. Researchers said compared to the other workers, men with high BPA exposure were about four times as likely to report trouble achieving erections, about seven times as likely to say they had difficulty ejaculating, and about four times as likely to report low sex drive or low satisfaction with their sex lives.
The effects are dramatic and "pretty clearly related to the exposure," said Linda Birnbaum, director of the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2009/nov/13/national-13-11-2009-00-007.htm

@neo,
are u having a bad hair day or sumtin?
Cos, i dont remember me ever insulting you on this forum!
If you have a problem with my posts, why dont you say it, Instead of hiding behind cheap insults?
Please dont make your stay on this forum, miserable!
You puke snorting, shit hound.

@poster,
What killed bayo ohu, Paul Abayomi Ogundeji & Eiphraim Audu?
What about the countless journalists who have been beaten, blinded or even killed in the line of duty these last two years?
Only negative stuff makes headlines, & because you dont get those headlines as often as before, doesnt mean Nigerian journalists are dining with our devilish politicians!
They put their lives in danger while covering elections, court cases etc,.,.,.,
and yet you have the nerve to come here & spew rubbish

if you want juicy headlines, go & buy all these 100naira otokoto, ritual killing, son beheads dad, girl turns to snake, bird turns to woman, obama is the anti-christ! Newspapers.
Or stayed tuned to NKAN BE, 2pm every sunday @ galaxy TV.
Or better yet, get a job!

@saint neo,
u say wetin?
Last time i checked, this was a public forum!
U dey hear me so?

C'mon, u're kidding, right?

C'mon, u're kidding, right?

Who da hell wants to eat irradiated food?
I like The fact that it was situated in the north, but for GODS sake, the facility should be constructed in an isolated, preferably desert area, away from civilian population!
Certainly not the CAPITAL of the nation!

Brilliant move!

@tpia,
okay.

Wow! She looks good enough to eat

You dey fear?

Semid, u know our people, now? Even if it was just a small push! paranoid street wise nigerians will call it a hug

The study said "emerging economies", not "super powers"!
Is year 2050 not more realistic than vision 2020?
C'mon!

Tpia, all that one na grammer!
Point is, never mind!

Tpia, all that one na grammer

Hmmm,.,. My mates?
How old do you think i am?

Bloody teenagers!

Yes! We have done it again! Despite all the negatives, NIGERIA is moving forward.
Good people, Great nation!
UP 9JA!
http://www.newinyork.com/Economy/The-Next-Eleven-largest-economies-in-21st-century-6/
http://www.bankresearch.org/economicpolicyblog/2006/07/after_brics_gol.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Next_Eleven

Posted on: Today at 05:56:24 PM
Posted by: Shaunscot

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Whats wrong with a milkshake remix
As long as she does a video lol.
Wonders shall never end

Alrite, but datz fro m ur own viewpoint ooo!

Thank God he didnt die!
The death sentence is the only way out of this mess called NPF.

Nella,
the concept is to snatch the power of manhood, not the actual organ itself!
So a mighty iroko tree is metaphysically transformed into a whithered, impotent pencil.
My own question is, how did he know his manhood had been stolen?

Nella,
the concept is to snatch the power of manhood, not the actual organ itself!
So a mighty iroko tree is metaphysically transformed into a whithered, impotent pencil.
My own question is, how did he know his manhood had been stolen?

Nella,
the concept is to snatch the power of manhood, not the actual organ itself!
So a mighty iroko tree is metaphysically transformed into a whithered, impotent pencil.
My own question is, how did he know his manhood had been stolen?

You cannot scam an honest man

@afam,
u just made my day!
@aisha,
i wonder why you should brand this thread, a complaint about Nigeria?
Please quote where i complained about Nigeria.

In my earlier posts, i said that @ my age, i cannot do anything 4 Nigeria so i dont expect anything fròm Nigeria in return!

Does that look like a complaint to you?
Please dont make me diss a lady, it makes me sound uncultured.
@chosen04,
am sorry for insulting you! I didnt mean it. Hope you can accept my apology?