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Soy lowers your sperm count

We all knew that those soy-based, fake meat products from your grocer's health food section weren't nearly as manly as hearty chunk of red meat -- and now someone's gone and proved it. According to researchers at Harvard, the stuff lowers your sperm count.

Joking about masculinity aside, soy-based products are a big part of life for vegetarians (or health nuts, environmentalists, and anyone else who tries to curb their meat consumption), and this new study reveals some potentially serious side affects. It's thought that soy products increase estrogen activity, which in turn hampers sperm production, and -- in worst cases -- leads to infertility.

Most alarming, is that these harmful affects can occur after only half of one serving per day. If you're using soy products -- like tofu, tempeh, soy sausages, bacon, or burgers, and soy milk, cheese, yogurt, or ice cream -- to replace (or even partially replace) meat in your diet, it's probable that your soy intake is significantly higher than that.

To read a PDF of the full research paper, go here.

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