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Sunday, Oct 12, 2008
A regular diet of even modest amounts of food containing soy may halve sperm concentrations, suggest scientists.
The study, published in the journal Human Reproduction, found 41 million fewer sperm per millilitre of semen after just one portion every two days.
The authors said plant oestrogens in foods such as tofu, soy mince or milk may interfere with hormonal signals.
However, a UK expert stressed that most men in Asia eat more soy-based products with no fertility problems.
The real estate developer, who was closely tied to Barack Obama, was convicted this summer — he’s likely talking about other politicians, however.
Ultra-indie American film grows up in a hurry with Joe Swanberg and Greta Gerwig’s erotic, wrenching relationship drama “Nights and Weekends.”
The modern Beltway journalist compulsively asserts equivalencies between each side without regard to whether they are actually the same.
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