After conducting a new research, scientists are now saying that shopping is really bad for men's health as well as their fertility.

Boffins have found that a chemical compound found on some cash receipts have a dangerous substance, Bisphenol A (BPA) that inhibits male hormones inside the body and can make males unable to copulate.

The compound, utilized to make ink visible on thermally sensitive paper, is consumed when males handle the paper and then touch their mouths or handle food.

Frank Sommer, a Berlin-based urologist, stated that the substance could just affect sex hormones in males.

Sommer said, "A substance like that could shift the balance of sex hormones in men towards oestrogen. In the long term, this leads to less sexual drive, encourages the belly instead of the muscles to grow and has a bad effect on erection and potency."

BPA has been related to breast cancer, cardiopathy, obesity, hyperactivity and other problems, and has been banished in Canada and a few US states.

Bisphenol A (BPA) is generally used in tins of food and canned drinks to fortify the container's internal lining. The majority of makers of baby bottles have stopped putting it in their products but older stock containing the chemical is still on sale. (With Inputs from Agencies)