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And this is why, when Faludi uses the word "emasculation," what I think she is evoking is a fear of diminished potency which is more economic than sexual.
On one hand, there is increasing and rather convincing observational and experimental data underscoring the beneficial effects of marine fish consumption on fetal growth and gestation [ 1 2 3 ] . On the other hand, consumption of environmentally contaminated fish has been associated with decrements in gestation and birth weight in some studies [ 4 5 6 ] . Animal evidence suggests that Rhesus monkeys, rats and mice exposed to polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in utero have reductions in length of gestation and growth [ 7 8 9 ] . The results from accidental environmental exposures also report adverse effects on birth size and ectodermal manifestations among fetuses to various polyhalogenated hydrocarbons [ 10 11 ] . One occupational study has reported a negative relation between PCB exposure and infant birth weight, which no longer remained significant after adjusting for gestation and other variables related to birth weight [ 12 ] . Results from a birth cohort study in the Faroe Islands, a community with a high intake of marine fish, whale meat and blubber, supported a relation between marine fatty acids and diminished birth weight for gestation, but the effects were not attributed to the mercury or PCB exposure [ 13 ] .
Both t PTEF and t E will influence the final value of the ratio t PTEF / t E . In a patient with airway obstruction, slow exhalation secondary to an increased expiration time constant will increase t E . In addition, active breaking is diminished, leading to decreased t PTEF . Both these mechanisms result in a low t PTEF / t E value in a patient with airway obstruction.
Nor is the vividness of this tableau entirely diminished when one notes that, as here used, excrement is a synonym for hair .
We're teaching them a deliberately diminished view of human nature that has been useful in helping scientists establish long-overdue connections between human and animal psychology--but that is not the end-all and be-all of who we are, what we do, and why we do it.
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