Posted on 02/11/2019 3:24:12 AM PST by vannrox
A new published study found that a chemical commonly found on fast-food wrappers and non-stick frying pans could seriously have a significant impact on male penis endowment.
According to the study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, those who had been exposed to perfluoroalkyl compounds had significantly smaller penises than those who hadn’t.
Also referred to as PFCs, the compounds also lowered semen quality. They’re designed to make cooking easier, but it seems that they may have a bizarre effect on penises.
Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substancesare a class of fluorinated organic chemicals containing at least one fully fluorinated carbon atom.
The compounds are also found in drinking water in some places. In the study, researchers analysed young men living in Padua, Italy. Water there is known to be heavily polluted with PFCs.
383 male high-school students were examined, including 212 who had been exposed to PFCs through June 2017 and May. They took participant’s blood to measure sexual hormones, examined semen samples. They also took several measurements on their penises, including length, circumference, testicular volume and anogenital distance.
These chemicals had a significant effect on boys. Participants who weren’t exposed to PFCs had an average penis length of 3.94 inches, compared to an average of 3.44 inches in those who had. Exposed men were also one-fifth of an inch less girthy.
The Mirror explains:
In the study, published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism, the researchers, led by Andrea Di Nisio, wrote: “This study documents that PFCs have a substantial impact on human male health as they directly interfere with hormonal pathways potentially leading to male infertility.
“We found that increased levels of PFCs in plasma and seminal fluid positively correlate with circulating testosterone and with a reduction of semen quality, testicular volume, penile length, and AGD [anogenital distance].”
Worryingly, the researchers found the problem has affected young men from 1978 onwards – and the PFCs aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Instead, they suggest that the next move may be working out a way to remove PFCs from the blood.
Study authors call this a “substantial impact on human male health”.
The man-made chemicals have long been used in a wide range of consumer products. The list includes nonstick cookware, water-repellent fabrics and grease-resistant paper products. They are also used in firefighting foams. Exposures have been associated with an array of health problems, among them thyroid disease, weakened immunity, infertility risks and certain cancers. The compounds do not break down in the environment.
So, what can we do to keep ourselves safe? Di Nisio believes the next priority is figuring out how to safely remove PFCs from the blood. Until we can do so, and until more PFCs are banned or phased out, the penis outlook is far from sunny.
“At least here in Italy, it is very difficult to know if a product contains these chemicals,” he told IFLScience. “In the case of a product where it is explicitly stated ‘PFOA-free’, I do not feel safe anyway. PFOA is only one of hundreds of possible PFC compounds. They can all be dangerous… therefore it is very hard to avoid any contact with any PFC.”
Try the new “McDinky”.
there mentions of semen and infertility or quality, I wonder did they sample same time every day they sampled? It’s known men can have more semen at some times more so then others and these teens may have done things (to put it nicely) that may have effected the samples (like when your doctor needs first urine of day but you already went at home prior to doctor appt, or doctor tells you to fast but you snitch before the blood test)
Newer study: Voting democrat can make your penis and your testicles fall off.
So ... drink beer and you get a DUI ... drink water and your weenie shrinks.
I need to eat more fast food then so I can come down to a normal size.
I thought it was Global Warming which made them smaller.
Sure wish they would get their story right.../sar
Typical propaganda.
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Well, then eat only slow food then.
As I read this story, it isn’t “fast food” that causes it but “junk food.” And specifically the wrappers in which junk food comes PLUS non-stick frying pans.
I think the wrappers they are talking about go on things like Twinkies, candy bars, potato chips and other junk food. Maybe the real problem is eating the junk food, not the wrapper!
Non-stick frying pans, by the way, can be used in any home or restaurant and has nothing to do with junk food or fast food. So, your entire diet could be the best around and if you use non-stick frying pans you have a smaller penis. By this measure grilling outdoors is the solution, men!
I think there was a bit of leftist propaganda motivation in putting “fast food” in the title.
HA! (Coffee out the nose burns)
so they don’t fall in?
These “scientists” all flunked out of Global Warming Alarmism school and had to figger out a new way to make a living.
Conspiracy?
It may be........................................
They would have collected more data but I heard they were short-staffed.
Okay, okay...I'll stop, but Wendy's not gonna be happy with this article. {;^)
The result of high concentrations of ptfe reagents and/or monomers found in and around the industrial sites producing the compounds drove changes related to the "mixing" and application of the compounds.
Since the chemistry was not altered, the changes were thought to have been benign but would reduce mirgration into the environment.
The teflon coating coming off cookware into food was one result. The delamination of the insulation on pacemaker wire leads was another.
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