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Hiking is the simplest and most exhilarating way of seeing the countryside, whether in the Dolomites or the Alps, around the lakes and national parks, or merely trekking through the rolling hills of Tuscany or Umbria.
Take the cable car to the peak of the Mottarone at 1,491 m (4,892 ft) for an exhilarating view of the Lombardy lakes, the Alps, and the Po valley.
Ontario’s playgrounds, weekend cottages, and marinas hug the shores and islands of the upper Great Lakes, offering resort hotel facilities.
Contamination of the Great Lakes has led to the bioaccumulation of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in fish, particularly the larger predator species prized by sport-fishers [ 1 2 3 ] . These compounds are synthetic organochlorines (OC) that, along with dichlorodiphenyl-dichloroethene (DDE), comprise the bulk of OC residues found in human tissues [ 4 ] , and some of the highest body burdens of PCBs in humans are found among fish consumers [ 5 6 7 8 ] . Consumption of these contaminated Great Lakes fish has been associated with several adverse reproductive outcomes including shortened menstrual cycle [ 9 ] , reduced fecundability [ 10 11 ] , reduced neonatal size [ 12 ] , and neurologic disorders [ 13 14 15 ] .
To examine whether increased parental serum PCB concentration is associated with changes in the sex ratio we looked at both maternal and paternal serum PCB levels in a cohort from the Great Lakes region of the United States.