Monday 10 May 2010

Bolivian president blames sex problems on chickens

Morales told an environmental conference on Tuesday that chicken producers inject the birds with female hormones, which he said can lead to baldness and sexual issues in men who eat the chicken.
There's an amount of confusion over exactly what Morales said, depending on which translation you read. The Associated Press reported that he said 'and because of that, men who consume them have problems being men' - suggesting he was talking about chickens causing impotence.
But another news agency, Agence France-Presse, reported his comments as 'when men eat those chickens, they experience deviances in being men.' Which sounds a bit more like he's blaming chickens for men becoming gay.

Either way, Morales' warning may be out of date: Chicken producers in Europe, the United States and many other countries say they abandoned the use of hormones in poultry several decades ago and many if not most Western nations ban them outright.
And in any case, Morales has his biochemistry the wrong way round - on the baldness issue, at least. Male pattern baldness is linked to dihydrotestosterone, a predominantly male hormone, not to female hormones. So you're probably okay to keep eating chickens and shouldn’t need the Viagra UK

4 comments:

  1. I am a chicken eater and hope if I get sex problems.. it would be by the goooood old way :-)

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  2. I have never heard about this that eating chicken can cause baldness or any sex problems. I am a weight lifter and doctor has advised me to eat chicken as it is a good source of protein and iron. Protein is an essential nutrient for growth and development and also plays an important role in assisting overweight and obese people in losing weight fast. So chicken is very much beneficial for us. I don't agree with you.

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  3. Thanks dude!!!! I have saved. Actually I am a vegetarian. So, no problem for me.

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  4. Oh man I am little bit confused by reading this post as I am chicken eater but I have not found any such a symptom in me. But you have frightened me to be vegetarian.

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