Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by freedude on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:02PM
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It's not better for you. In Males it produces unhealthy levels of Estrogens and it is already overly prominent in food.
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This is a silly meme. Plants contain phytoestrogen, which is not the same thing as estrogen. Ingestion of phytoestrogen actually seems to reduce the body's own natural estrogen production, which has the effect of reducing female fertility. Eating soy does not turn men into women, despite what insecure dudes on the internet may have told you. (Amusingly, despite all the hand-wringing about soy, I have never seen a similar campaign to decry milk, which actually does contain estrogen (although inert)).
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by skyyler on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:08PM
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Also, if soy did feminise the human body, transfeminine people would recommend eating nothing but soy to each other.
We do that, but we're joking.
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by mrguyorama on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @01:36PM
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I have always struggled to square this reality with the common recommendation from oncologists for women at high risk of breast cancer to eat less soy. Would a reduction in the bodies estrogen production increase the risk of breast cancer?
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by triceratops on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:13PM
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Two of the most ripped and jacked dudes I know are vegetarian or vegan. If you can't bulk on soy you should try lifting more bro.
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by hombre_fatal on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:18PM
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This is common social media bro science but show me the human outcome data that corroborates this.
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by skyyler on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @12:26PM
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Do you have sources for that?
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by jandrese on Tuesday June 20, 2023 @02:30PM
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As I understand that was meat industry propaganda that found a new life on the internet. Early veggie burgers were made out of soybeans so the industry made up the "soy turns you into a woman" meme to discourage people from switching. Then it got picked up by conspiracy nuts and got amplified way past the original market.
Re:Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling
by freedude on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @10:47AM
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