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If you are an obese, and going for bariatric surgery,there might be a chance of increased sexual desire post-surgery, but it has no guarantee of sperm quality improvement. Findings of a research suggest that men who have undergone bariatric surgery as a long-term way of losing weight might also benefit from increased testosterone levels post-surgery. However, there is no evidence that the sperm quality of a patient improves.  These are the findings of a comprehensive review in the Springer journal  Obesity Surgery , which is the official publication of the International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders (IFSO).   The research was led by Shahzeer Karmali and was a collaborative effort between Yung Lee of McMaster University and Jerry Dang of the University of Alberta in Canada. Hormonal changes, a drop in sexual functioning, and less satisfaction in bed are among the many downsides of obesity. Obese men in particular are known to experience

I first realised intelligence of an elephant when I had, during childhood, read a fictional story of immense friendship between the mammoth animal and a tailor who once lived in a village. The plot had it that elephant used to pass through market place in the village daily, and the friendly tailor always fed him no sooner it had protruded the trunk into the shop.One evening , the tailor was in an offensive mood and instead of feed ,he pricked the trunk with a needle. The animal quietly retreated though it writhed in pain.Next day, the once friendly elephant returned with filth and mud filled in the trunk, and splattered the dirt over neatly stitched and pressed clothes of the shop. Though the moral of the story was Tit for tat . It spoke volumes about the elephant's intelligence. Many such eye opening stories of elephants' intelligent mind come forth. But in a recently published research paper it was found that the Asian elephants have knack of mathematics.  Asian ele