US soy producers on Wednesday disputed a Harvard School of Public Health study that shows products containing soy and isoflavones can result in reduced sperm count among men.
"Headlines claiming 'soy products lower sperm count' do not tell the whole story," the Soyfoods Association of North America said in a statement challenging the methods used in the medical study, the first to relate soy to fertility problems in humans.
Soy or Soya - A Holy Food
Soy or Soya is a crop which has been cultivated from thousands of years. It belongs to the family of legumes.
Soy or Soya is a crop which has been cultivated from thousands of years. It belongs to the family of legumes.
The Soyfoods Association said the study "conflicts with the large body of US government and National Institutes of Health-sponsored human and primate research, in which controlled amounts of isoflavones were fed and no effect on quantity, quality or motility of sperm were observed."
The Harvard study led by Jorge Chavarro and published in Human Reproduction journal "is the first to find this correlation" between soy ingestion and low sperm count, said University of Alabama at Birmingham pharmacologist Stephen Barnes in the statement.
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Encyclopedia section of medindia explains in brief about the beneficial aspects of consuming Soya beans, which helps in preventing and controlling cancer
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"Generations of Asians have regularly consumed soya without fertility disorders, and Asian countries have prodigiously produced very healthy, highly-functioning children for centuries," the European group said.
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Men who have a daily consumption of half a serving of soy food on average may have lower sperm concentrations than men who do not eat soy foods, says a new research.
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Experts Say Soyfoods Have No Impact on Sperm Count
A recent study claiming soy products lower sperm count has now been questioned as experts claim that soyfoods have no impact on fertility.
A recent study claiming soy products lower sperm count has now been questioned as experts claim that soyfoods have no impact on fertility.
