Normally, the health scare stories relate to things you quite enjoy doing, like drinking, smoking, full English breakfasts, sun tanning etc etc, but here's a corker from today's Evening Standard. It must be true because it's full of really long words and everything:
Soya beans can interfere with sperm production, researchers claimed today.
Scientists in China are studying a naturally-occurring ingredient of soya beans, increasingly sold as substitutes for dairy-based food. Their research centred on genistein, a chemical known to interact with the “receptor” molecules of cells designed to respond to oestrogens.
Ren-Shan Ge of the Wenzhou Medical College in China found that genistein could interfere with the production of enzymes involved in producing sperm. “Following ingestion, soy isoflavones are known to reach the reproductive organs,” the researchers said. “Thus, excessive exposure to agents that exhibit oestrogenic activity may affect male reproductive tract developments and functions.”
Right at the end, a few nice short words
But Professor Ieuan Hughes of Cambridge University said an inquiry had failed to find any adverse effects.
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10 comments:
MW, congrats - yet another post that is 'hard-on' supposition, or is that facts.
WFW, that's a bit subtle for me. I'd describe the article as complete 'bollocks'.
"male reproductive tract developments and functions" - hard-on?
Apols - tad of 'base' humour that suffered from flacidity!
Flacidity or flatulence?
Hmm, let's see. Soya, much eaten in China. That'll be why they have so few births then.
Soya lecithin is an ingredient in most chocolate.
Gives a whole new meaning to that saying "a Mars a day helps you work rest and play".
Soya that hasnt been fermented makes you female and it also kills reproductivity
No the chinese and japanese do not eat unfermented soya
We do but they certainly do not
and not in any thing like the quantities we consume
Soya is poison
Look up westonaprice.org
This has been in the scientific literature for years, with nothing definitive. My observation is that China, a huge country, has a massive population, even after huge famines, massive internal rebellions and Genghis Khan murdering many millions of people long ago. A staple food is, wait for it........soya beans and their derivatives.
Case closed!
Fermenting soy beans doesn't destory these here feminising (allegedly) chemicals either.
Be warned, then, don't stuff soya beans in your underpants.
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