View Single Post
  #7 (permalink)   Report Post  
Posted to rec.food.cooking,rec.gardens.edible,soc.culture.china
rst0wxyz rst0wxyz is offline
external usenet poster
 
Posts: 40
Default Low sperm count? Don't eat soy.

On Jul 29, 9:36*am, Billy > wrote:
> In article
> >,
>
> *Wil > wrote:
> > On Jul 28, 8:19*pm, James > wrote:
> > >http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25833435/

>
> > > " Eating a half serving a day of soy-based foods could be enough to
> > > significantly lower a manšs sperm count"

>
> > There are over 2 billion Chinese in China. *Do you think they don't
> > eat soy?

>
> That's 1.3 billion Chinese.


That's only in China itself. There are Chinese living in all over the
world.

>
> http://chinesefood.about.com/od/heal...erns/a/soy.htm
> . . . the real problem is not whether soy is inherently bad (after all,
> people have been consuming plants with hormones for centuries) but that
> no one is sure how much soy it is safe to consume. While Asians have
> been consuming soy for centuries, there have been conflicting claims
> about how much soy they consume. Nonetheless, if soy starts turning up
> in everything from cereal to ice cream, we may begin consuming far
> higher amounts than is normally found in the Asian diet, without any
> real idea of the consequences. An related issue is that modern
> preparation methods for soy products may increase the health risks. For
> example, some companies use chemical hydrolization instead of
> traditional fermentation methods to make soy sauce. It's something to
> think about.
> --
>
> Billy
> Bush and Pelosi Behind Barshttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KVTfcAyYGg&ref=patrick.nethttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l0aEo59c7zU&feature=related