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- From: karpen@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil (Judy Karpen)
- Subject: Re: Veganism and impotence
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 23:19:53 GMT
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- In article <agj3yr+@rpi.edu>, weavej@aix.rpi.edu (Jonathan Mark Weaver)
- wrote:
- >
- >
- > I heard that women who become vegan will eventually become impotent.
- > While I believe this to be totally absurd, I don't have the sources to
- > back me up on this. Can anyone shine some light on this subject (like
- > maybe vegan women with children on the net)?
- >
- > Thanx in advance.
-
- OK, i know you meant infertile (but thanks for the laugh anyway!).
- I suspect the only morsel of fact in this relates to the well-known
- suppression of menses in women who have extremely low body fat --- usually
- marathon runners and the like, but POSSIBLY some vegans on very low-fat
- diets. No ovulation, no babies, right? But I seriously doubt that more than
- a handful of vegans actually get to this stage, unless they're anorexic or
- have other problems. If you need more authoritative info, I suggest you ask
- someone else to do a medical-lit. search ("that's not my department, said
- Werner von Braun...").
-
- Judy Karpen "pushing back the frontiers of science"
- karpen@nrlfs1.nrl.navy.mil Naval Research Lab, Washington, DC USA
-