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It wasn’t all that long ago that any suggestion that a man had a “biological clock” like a woman, and should father children sooner rather than later, would have been given short scientific shrift.

Not anymore. Today, a growing body of evidence suggests that as men get older, fertility can and does decline, while the chances of fathering a child with serious birth defects and medical problems increase.

Some studies have linked higher rates of serious health problems such as autism and schizophrenia in children born to men as young as their mid-40s.

And doctors and researchers are busy trying to figure out how men who choose to delay fatherhood — either by choice or necessity, such as a lack of a partner — can offset the effects of their biological clocks as those clocks wind down.

Interestingly, problems with reduced fertility can start long before middle age, said Dr. Harry Fisch, one of the pioneers in the field in male fertility and director of the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons‘ Male Reproductive Center, in New York City.

“We know after age 30, testosterone levels decline about 1 percent per year,” said Fisch, author of the book The Male Biological Clock.

Research done at the University of Washington has found that “as men age, DNA damage occurs to their sperm,” said Dr. Narendra P. Singh, a research associate professor in the department of bioengineering, who co-authored a study on the subject.

Several other studies point to problems in the offspring of older fathers, as well as older men experiencing fertility problems.

For instance, Fisch and his colleagues found that if a woman and a man were both older than age 35 at the time of conception, the father’s age played a significant role in the prevalence of Down syndrome. And this effect was most detectable if the woman was 40 or older — the incidence of Down syndrome was about 50 percent attributable to the sperm.

Other researchers have found that children born to fathers 45 or older are more likely to have poor social skills, and that children born to men 55 and older are more likely to have bipolar disorder than those born to men 20 to 24 years of age at the time of conception.

On other fronts, researchers at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City found that children of men aged 40 or older were about six times more likely to have autism. Still another study found that the children of fathers who were 50 or older when they were born were almost three times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Fisch is now focusing much of his attention on encouraging men to assess if their biological clock is ticking faster than it should. For instance, men who are overweight or obese tend to have more fertility problems than healthier men.

“It turns out that if you are too heavy, you have a lower sperm count,” he said, adding that excess body fat causes testosterone levels to decline. The good news: Losing weight helps them return to normal.

Singh advises older men who want to become fathers to pay attention to lifestyle issues and practice healthy habits that will, in turn, keep their sperm healthy. That particularly means no smoking and no overuse of alcohol, he said.

Both Fisch and Singh said they don’t think there’s a “cutoff” point for fatherhood. And they said it’s difficult to pinpoint the “ideal” age to father a child, especially since many couples today are marrying later and delaying starting a family.

But Fisch did say, “The sooner, the better.”

One in six Swedish five-year-olds is overweight, mainly due to lack of exercise, a study of 17,000 children showed Tuesday.

More than 17 percent of five-year-olds were heavier than they should be, with “12.9 percent overweight and 4.3 percent obese,” the report said.

The study, conducted by doctoral student Karina Huus at Linkoeping University, tracked babies born in southeastern Sweden between October 1997 and October 1999.

They were measured at birth, one year, two-and-a-half years, five years and eight to nine years of age. The parents also filled in questionnaires, including information about their children’s eating habits.

Low physical activity was associated with higher weights while certain foods, such as sugar-sweetened fruit drinks “may contribute to overweight/obesity at five years” of age while porridge may protect children at two-and-a-half years of age.

The report also showed that children whose parents were better educated, especially the father, had a lower chance of becoming fat.

In 2006, Sweden announced it would begin screening four-year-olds as part of their routine check-ups following a slew of reports showing an increased incidence of Sweden’s traditionally healthy children being overweight or obese.

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Their clothing allowance has been halved, they’ve had to fire their personal trainers and their sex lives have tanked.

They’re the once-pampered — now highly disgruntled — women partners of U.S. bankers and they’re speaking out about how the financial meltdown has changed their lives and their relationships.

Dating A Banker Anonymous (http://dabagirls.wordpress.com), a blog started by two New Yorkers, has made waves on the blogosphere this week with its tales of woe.

The venture has sparked a feminist backlash, suspicions of a marketing stunt, and hilarity over accounts of weekends in Europe and opera tickets being traded for gloomy nights at home with anxious bankers who are fixated by TV financial news.

“The sitter’s hours are cut, both the family and my private credit card are cut in half, and I’m switching from having my facials and massages in my earthy, yoga-and-wine serving downtown spa to a midtown been-in-business-forever place with ladies in cubbies wearing pink jackets and lots of make-up giving facials only,” says one entry from Cathy, who wrote about life in Manhattan with a banker husband whose income was cut in January by 75 percent.

The blog is described as a “a safe place where women can come together — free from the scrutiny of feminists — and share their tearful tales of how the mortgage meltdown has affected their relationships.”

“SPOILED HARPIES“?

Comments on the blog in recent days ranged from sympathy, accusations of heartless gold digging, scorn from feminists and laughter at what some presume is satire in a era when Wall Street’s excesses are facing plenty of mockery.

In a blog on the National Public Radio website, Linda Holmes suspected the venture was a publicity stunt aimed at getting its creators a TV show or book deal.

“My guess is that the women are setting themselves up for a kind of reality-show ‘Confessions Of A Shopaholic’ book, real-but-not-real, and … whatever, they’re not hurting anyone,” Hunt wrote on Thursday.

Ryan Tate, writing on Gawker.com, called the women “an imploding caste of spoiled harpies” whose boyfriends and ex-lovers “spent their economic plunder as carelessly as they hoarded it.”

Best friends Laney Crowell, a beauty editor, and lawyer Megan Petrus of New York, say they started the site when they realized their FBF’s (finance guy boyfriends) had become emotional trainwrecks due to the collapse of venerable financial institutions.

“We felt our relationships were being victimized by the economy … Not knowing what else to do, we did what enraged yet articulate people have done since the beginning of time. We started a blog,” they wrote on their blog.

Crowell and Petrus spoke to the New York Times this week but could not immediately be contacted by Reuters on Thursday.

Traditional Chinese balance and mobility exercise training does not appear to reduce the risk of falls among home-living elderly at high risk of falling, according to a study from the Netherlands.

“It is not enough to practice Tai Chi for a short period to prevent falls in the future,” Inge H. J. Logghe, of Erasmus MC University Medical Center, in Rotterdam, told Reuters Health.

Over a 12-month period, elderly men and women who took Tai Chi Chuan training recorded a total of 115 falls, while the men and women who did not train in Tai Chi Chuan recorded 90 falls, Logghe and colleagues report in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

Tai Chi Chuan potentially improves balance by training people to perform a series of positions in a slow, flowing manner, but previous studies of its usefulness in preventing falls had provided mixed results.

Thus, Logghe’s team randomly assigned 131 elders to a control group that received “usual” care and another 138 elders to participate in Tai Chi Chuan training for 1 hour, twice weekly for 13 weeks.

The participants were 77 years old on average, and 71 percent female. They all lived at home, and had disturbed balance, dizziness, mobility problems, or were on medications that placed them a high risk for falling.

The investigators tallied the elders’ daily calendar records of whether or not they had fallen over the course of the study and, as noted, found there were more falls among the Tai Chi participants.

Moreover, Logghe reported “a trend of higher fall risk in the elderly who participated in the Tai Chi training,” when she and colleagues specifically assessed falls among the 61 percent of participants who had fallen at least once during the year prior to study enrollment.

The investigators also found no between group differences in balance, fear of falling, physical activity level, or functional status, further suggesting Tai Chi Chuan is limited in preventing falls among home-living elderly at high risk for falling.

Scientists from Children’’s National Medical Centre have identified key developmental mechanisms of the amygdala – a brain region critical in processing and memory of emotional reactions.

The finding may provide insights into autism.

Using studies of embryonic mice, the researchers have identified a group of precursor cells of neurons that are set aside specifically for the amygdala, and are crucial to the growth and development for this portion of the brain.

Autism and similar disorders are often attributed to altered function of this region.

“Despite its central role in normal brain function and behaviour, little has been known about how neuronal cell diversity is generated during development of the amygdala,” Nature quoted senior author Joshua Corbin, PhD, of the Centre for Neuroscience Research at Children’’s National as saying.

“It was thought that development of this region occurred similarly to other brain structures like the cerebral cortex, but our findings indicate that a specific precursor pool exists that is pre-assigned exclusively to the limbic system.

“It is a breakthrough to our understanding of this little studied region of the brain.

“A more clear understanding of the normal development of this important brain structure provides a roadmap to understand the consequences of altered brain development in neurodevelopmental disorders,” Corbin added.

The study appears in February edition of Nature Neuroscience.

Obese men reported better sexual function after losing lots of weight in a new study, one of several to show the side benefits of slimming down.

The research involved 97 men with an average age of 48, all of whom were “morbidly obese.” The conclusions are based on the patients’ own reporting of sexual function before and again several months after gastric bypass surgery that allowed them to shed significant poundage.

“We estimate that a man who is morbidly obese has the same degree of sexual dysfunction as a non-obese man about 20 years older,” the researchers conclude.

The findings were published in December in the Journal of the American College of Surgeons.

While the results might make gastric bypass surgery seem attractive, the procedure is not without complications and often disappointing results. Experts suggest it only for the desperate who’ve had no luck cutting pounds through better diet and exercise. Risks range from vomiting to anemia, diarrhea and dizziness to death by respiratory failure or blood clots. Further, a patient’s system post-surgery will not absorb nutrients as effectively as it should, according to the National Institutes of Health.

At least the sex might be better.

However, the surgery works only if the patient makes wholesale changes to diet and lifestyle. “Without changing your lifestyle, the surgery will not be a success,” the NIH states.

A smarter strategy for most people would be exercise and good nutrition.

In a 2006 study reported in the Journal of Urology, obese men who did little exercise were at 2.5 times greater risk for erectile dysfunction (ED) - certainly a showstopper behind closed doors - compared with men who were not overweight and averaged 30 minutes of vigorous exercise a day.

Other research has shown that erectile dysfunction is “not a natural sign of aging,” the NIH states. Rather, it indicates poor health. “It [ED] may mean your blood vessels are clogged. It may mean you have nerve damage from diabetes,” according to the NIH.

Men as young as 20 report erection problems attributed to obesity or inactivity, one study found. Smoking has also been linked to ED.

The overall emerging point: Sex need not be a downhill slide if one can stay healthy and exercise into middle age. A survey reported in BJU International, the British journal of urology, showed that men in their 50s enjoy sex almost as much as those in their 20s.