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Veggie diet leads to infertility?
Rex Features
Men who enjoy a vegetarian diet rich in soya products like tofu could be affecting their fertility.
New research claims that men who eat just half a serving of soya each day have a lower sperm count than men who don't.
The soya products in question? Tofu, soy sausages, bacon, burgers and mince, along with soya milk, yoghurt, cheese and ice cream.
And the bad news is, the more soya men eat, the less sperm they produce, with the association between the two even more pronounced in overweight men and, strangely, also those with naturally high sperm counts.
'We found an inverse association between the consumption of soy foods and sperm concentration which was more pronounced at the higher end of the sperm concentration distribution and among overweight or obese men,' the American team of researchers report.
Thursday 24 July 2008
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