{"id":131538,"date":"2025-09-04T06:06:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131538\/"},"modified":"2025-09-04T06:06:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T06:06:05","slug":"ultra-processed-foods-found-to-harm-male-fertility-and-metabolism-study-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/131538\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-processed foods found to harm male fertility and metabolism, study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A small but rigorous new\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cmet.2025.08.004\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">study<\/a>\u00a0found that eating ultra-processed foods caused otherwise healthy men to quickly gain body fat and led to reductions in their sex hormones. The men also seemed to have accumulated higher levels of a chemical found in plastics and food packaging.<\/p>\n<p>Many previous studies have found that\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/01\/07\/healthier-ultra-processed-foods\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">ultra-processed foods are linked<\/a>\u00a0to higher rates of obesity,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/07\/28\/science-prevent-heart-disease\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">heart disease<\/a>, Type 2 diabetes and other chronic health conditions. But the new study, published on Thursday in Cell Metabolism, is striking because it suggests that ultra-processed foods can have detrimental effects not only on metabolic health but on reproductive health as well.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the latest news and policy debates on sustainable agriculture, biomedicine, and other \u2018disruptive\u2019 innovations. Subscribe to our newsletter.<\/p>\n<p>The findings add to what is becoming overwhelming evidence that diets based on ultra-processed foods are not good for us, said Marion Nestle, an emeritus professor of nutrition, food studies and public health at New York University, who was not involved in the new study. \u201cBut the big shocker here is the potential effect on male fertility,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wellness\/2025\/08\/28\/ultra-processed-sperm-quality-male-fertility\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">This is an excerpt. Read the original post here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A small but rigorous new\u00a0study\u00a0found that eating ultra-processed foods caused otherwise healthy men to quickly gain body fat&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131539,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[200,79],"class_list":["post-131538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-genetics","tag-genetics","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131538\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}