Most people do not care too much about their daily diet. In fact, people tend to think that eating in a fair amount carbohydrate, proteins, and fat is good for health. Most of the time, we do not realize what the implications of what we are eating are. Obviously, eating is a need for us as human beings, but there are a lot of food that are harmful for our body and system. Indeed, diet can have a notable impact on us, especially on our reproductive health.
So, men, be careful with your diet, above all with dairy and carbs. A recent scientific research suggests that the more carbohydrates or dairy (milk) a man eats, the poorer the quality of his sperm. Similarly, two other studies focused on in vitro fertilization, and found that women who lowered their carb intake while upping their protein consumption stood better chances of becoming pregnant. In these studies, a dietary analysis revealed that carbs accounted for roughly half of all calories consumed among the participants who experimented with. The group of scientists found that carb intake did not appear to have any impact on sperm mobility or shape. However, they found that the more carbs consumed, the lower the man's overall sperm count. 
Of course, we would indeed expect that something produced by the body would be affected by the quality of nutrition put into it. For one thing, we have known for years, from the female perspective, that the quality of nutrition that a woman takes in at the time of conception, or even before conception, has an influence on that child's health long term in all sorts of ways. So, it should not be surprising that nutrition would have an impact on men and the quality of their sperms, which are basically made by protein, or on in vitro pregnancy rates. You can read the article here and know how the experiment was conductedAt some point, we realize that some things around can be dangerous for us — things that we consider good and important in our life. In this aspect, technology cannot do much, but science can; it has helped people to be aware of good things in order to have them in life, and has discovered damaging and hurtful aspects in order to avoid them and have a better way of living. What would happen if science did not exist? Would it be easy for us to take care of ourselves? What would happen if science did not discover how bad milk and carbs are for men? Sometimes small details in life are considered insignificant, but at some point can they affect people's life?
Very interesting topic! If I hadn’t read your entry, I wouldn’t have known anything about this property of food. I think I’m going to be careful with my diet since today—I am a healthy person, really, but sometimes I tend to forget the real importance of having a healthy diet.
ReplyDeleteConsidering the topic you presented, I looked for more information in order to complement yours and I found that alcohol and smoking could affect the sperm’s production in terms of quantity and quality too. According to some experts, alcohol may affect the sperm quality by increasing the oestrogen production in the liver, as well as poisoning cells in the testes. On the other hand, smoking is thought to cause around 13 per cent of infertility, by intoxicating the blood too.
Sadly, I smoke and drink –moderately—but I’m not sure if I could leave them behind forever!
I knew about drinking. But I didn't know that smoking can cause infertibility, it is very dangerous then! Indeed, I think that all drinkings and foods can really affect us. Sometimes we are not aware of it, and we just eat. Since a year ago, I started to have sugar problems and difficulties in my metabolism, and that was all beacause of food. Now, I read every single ingredient that a product has. So, It is important to pay attention to our diet as you are doing it now :)
ReplyDeleteA week ago I talked about a topic related to our diet. I did research on our dietary habits, and we tend to eat in the same order every day. That is to say, breakfast, lunch and dinner, and through my research I found that our dietary habits owe more to our social conventions than our biological needs. Why? Because studies still have not come to agreement. Regarding food, new studies come up all the time, and due to this there are many misconceptions about the properties of different food, concepts that may lead you to make bad decisions that can affect your health and your weight. I’ll give you a well-known example, have you ever heard that milk and dairy products are good to prevent osteoporosis? Now a review of 58 studies published in the journal Pediatrics indicates that "there is no evidence to indicate that a higher dairy intake promotes bone mineralization in children and youth. Nor does another Harvard study conducted in adults link more dairy intake to a lowered instance of osteoporosis. But it has clearly established the relationship between higher bone density and diets rich in fruits, vegetables and legumes. According to experts, a diet rich in calcium but lacking these elements can end up causing calcium loss, and this one of many consequences of poor diet. I also found an interesting type of diet that completely contradicts our common habits of breakfast, lunch and dinner. A study done at the University of California at Berkeley, revealed that eating only on alternate days of the week, while fasting in between, helps prevent heart disease and many chronic diseases, such as type 2 diabetes and even some cancers! Can you believe it? So I really have mixed feelings about the science of our diet because while science can help us eat healthier, at the same time there are still a lot of things we don’t know. As I mentioned in my original entry disagreement often arises between scientists and doctors, and with the explosion of Publicity that appears every time they make a new diet, there is a lot incentive for a doctor or scientist to
ReplyDelete“edit” the truth. It causes me to distrust what they say, and I wonder if scientists are trying to improve our health or the companies’ bank accounts. Should we then really trust in those studies? Or should we just trust our bodies, and eat whatever makes us feel more comfortable and healthy?