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Originally Posted by Sandlotje
While that is a good point, it is not necessarily directly correlated to their diet. Anyway, like I said it was just my .02. Here is a short article about it. Tofu 'seriously lowers sperm count' | Metro.co.uk
However, I'm guessing they just don't use contraceptives as much (I know next to nothing about chinese culture); thererfore even if the men have lower sperm count, their partners are much more susceptible to becoming impregnated.
I just think it's important for people to be aware of something as small as this because it can have a big impact later on when someone wants a kid. Better to be aware than end up saying "oh sh!t  ... whoops." |
If you read the article, they have not done extensive research on it, and that was the only one of its kind done, so they have lots of research yet to go. Basically, right now it's more like "jumping to conclusions" than anything else.
And if you're using contraceptives, you obviously don't want kids, so it makes no difference, anyway.
Edit: It seems like it can hardly be called "research" at all...
http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyl...ndex_lifestyle
According to this article, all they did was ask 99 men at a fertility clinic about how much soy-based food they ate in the past three months. There was no control. They did not check these men's sperm count three months prior (and presumably before they started eating soy-based food) to see if it was actually the soy that made the difference. They did not check for other possible factors.
Plus, if you're going to a fertility clinic, your sperm count as compared to "normal" people would have already been in question, anyway.
And this is what is said in the article:
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Chavarro considers the findings preliminary and inconclusive. "It's way too early to say stop eating soy foods," he said. "It's not time to worry about whether you're eating too much soy. There's not enough information to conclusively say that. "
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