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Harvard Study: Bacon Can Dramatically Increase Infertility in Men

A Harvard School of Public Health study found that men who “eat lots processed meat such as bacon and sausage” have 30% fewer normal sperm than men who didn’t.  Processed meats had an adverse affect on the quality of the sperm of more than 250 samples from 156 men in “subfertile couples” who went to a specific fertility center and answered questions regarding their diets. The scientists, who analyzed the data, determined that eating processed red meat resulted in abnormal size and shape of sperm’s cell structures, which can contribute to infertility.

 Even one slice of bacon or sausage link per day can deform sperm, they concluded. The findings were presented recently in Boston at the American Society for Reproductive Medicine‘s annual meeting and published in the journal Fertility and Sterility, as reported by LAWeekly. 

Dr. Jorge Chavarro, one of the study’s researchers, told the New York Daily News, that the way meat is produced in the United States is concerning in regard to infertility in this country. “Many beef producers give cattle natural or synthetic hormones to stimulate growth, a few days or weeks before the animals are killed. We wanted to examine how these hormones might affect people who consume them.” The study accounted for other factors such as age, body mass index, abstinence interval, prior fertility evaluation, smoking status, race and caloric intake. The hormones shot into livestock may not be the only culprit when it comes to meat and infertility.  

A Danish study links the saturated fats found in meat, cheese and other dairy products to “dwindling sperm counts,” as reported by an earlier article in the New York Daily News.  This report, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, found that “young Danish men who ate the most saturated fats in the study had a 38% lower concentration of sperm and 41% lower sperm counts that those who ate the least fat.“  The researchers in the study said that their findings may partially explain decreasing sperm counts around the world. Tina Jenson, the study’s lead author, said that the “next step is to find the mechanism by which saturated fat could influence sperm count and then to see whether sperm counts improve when men cut down on saturated fat in their diets.” 

Surprisingly, a particular food that is easy to incorporate into the diet has a significant impact on healthy sperm.....

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