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Men's Fertility Irreversibly Damaged by Age of 18 Thanks to Western Junk Food Diet, Study Finds

posted by chromas on Thursday June 27 2019, @03:33AM   Printer-friendly
from the junk-shot dept.

Phoenix666 writes:

Telegraph (no paywall version):

Male fertility is being irreversibly damaged by a diet of western junk food by the time men reach 18, a study has found.

A groundbreaking investigation has established that teenagers who favour high-fat and processed foods like pizzas, chips and snacks are killing off sperm-producing cells that can never be replaced.

It showed that a diet dominated by fish, chicken, vegetables and fruit is best is for protecting those cells and ensuring healthy levels of sperm.

[...] The research is being presented at the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology (ESHRE) annual conference in Vienna.

The solution is simple: don't eat anyone's junk.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @07:11AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 27 2019, @07:11AM (#860438)

    High-fat diets rich in animal fats and low in vegetable oils are good for you.

    They might be better than the typical "US-style" junk diets but I personally find high animal fat clogs my brain/blood vessels (e.g. I get some transient mild ringing in my ears if I eat lots of animal fat - yes even the non highly processed fats - just heat, pepper/spices, salt and not much else), so I avoid it when I can.

    I know different people are different so it might work fine for you.

    But see also: https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2012/05/ditching-saturated-fats-could-improve-memory-and-cognition/257386/ [theatlantic.com]

    As for oils, increased consumption of those seem to give me zits. Even "olive oil" (seems lots of fake olive oils around nowadays). So I cut down on those too.

    In contrast lots of leafy veges with some beans/legumes and chicken/fish seem to be OK for me except that I tend to have to poop a lot more (which is not surprising).

    you are practically incapable of overeating saturated fat because it is many times more filling to the stomach than any kind of fiber is

    I disagree. For example, cheese is quite addictive for many people. Once they start they can keep eating and eating and end up consuming a lot more cheese+calories (466g=2000kcal) than if say it was some high fibre vegetables or a pile of cooked chicken breast meat (1.2kg for 2000 kcal) or fish (1.4kg = 2000kcal).

    I'm not saying calories are inherently evil - they're necessary to survive. But it's easier to "accidentally/extra-dentally" overeat a small block of cheese compared to accidentally overeating half a kilo of chicken breast or fish.

    See also: https://www.latimes.com/food/dailydish/la-dd-cheese-addictive-drugs-20151022-story.html [latimes.com]
    But maybe different types of milk are actually different: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4818854/ [nih.gov]
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4487594/ [nih.gov]
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A2_milk [wikipedia.org]