[Teknoman117]

9. You just can't win can you?

Eat meat, increase risk of heart disease. Eat soy, decrease fertility.

Life is weird to me. Humans have one of the longest lifespans among mammals, yet we seem to start breaking down not all that far into it. We don't tend to consider 35 "old", as we regularly live 80+ years, and even if you consider the "generally well functioning" span of your life to be your years up to 60 or so, 35 is barely past half way.

Oh well.

[jahewson]

The heart disease thing is probably bogus https://bigthink.com/health/red-meat-cancer-not-health-risk/

[brushfoot]

The soy study is far from conclusive - it showed an inverse association between soy intake and sperm concentration, but mainly in "overweight and obese men," and "total sperm count, ejaculate volume, sperm motility, [and] sperm morphology" remained the same. NEJM Journal Watch stated the findings were inconclusive and recommended against suggesting dietary changes [0].

Either way, soy vs. meat is not the dichotomy it's sometimes presented as in political narratives. You can eliminate both and still have a huge number of healthy world foods to choose from. The Mediterranean I had recently was delicious and soy and meat free.

[0]: https://www.jwatch.org/jw200808070000002/2008/08/07/do-soy-f...

[lm28469]

Half of the west eat and live as if they were attempting a slow suicide. Take care of your body and you'll be healthy well into your 60s, unless you're afflicted by outlier events but you can't do anything about these, maximise what you can, fate will do the rest

[moffkalast]

Life is a known cause of death.