Fwd: This is why they are putting Soy in every type food we eat!

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Chris StClair

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 19:48:37 -0700 (PDT)

Re: This is why they are putting Soy in every type

food we eat!

 

Yes, it's about money. Soy is easy to grow and the

major ag corporations grow tons of it. Soy is not

commonly grown by small scale farming operations. Now

it is even being grown overseas very cheaply and sold

here at immense profits. Not only is soy bad for you

but when you eat it you are supporting some of the

sleaziest ag corporations in the world.

 

See what's happening in Brazil for example:

 

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/22323/story.htm

 

--- " M.E. " <SpokaneRealtor wrote:

> Elaine,

> I did check my cupboards and all my soups, breads,

> chocolate candies, tacos, tortillas, tuna,

> everything I had in the cupboard had soy!

> And maybe, just maybe here is our answer!

> Are they doing this to make us sick, so we will all

> have to get their costly prescriptions drugs, and

> they make more money off us at the hospitals? Is

> this all about money?

> Just putting the pieces of the great puzzle

> together.

> L.

>

> Soy Weakens Your Immune System

>

> A hormone-like compound found in soy products,

> including soy-based infant

> formulas and menopause remedies, may impair immune

> function.

> When mice were injected with the " plant estrogen "

> genistein, which is found

> in soy products, levels of several immune cells

> dropped and the thymus, a

> gland where immune cells mature, shrank.

> Of course, people eat rather than inject soy

> products, but the thymus also

> became smaller in mice that consumed genistein in

> their diet. This is

> particularly concerning, researchers say, since

> the resulting blood levels

> of genistein in the mice were lower than those

> reported in human babies fed

> soy formula.

> A few reports from the late 1970s and early 1980s

> suggested that a soy-based

> diet impaired infants' immune functions. About 15%

> of infants in the US, or

> roughly 750,000 children, consume soy-based

> formula each year.

> Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

>

>

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Retrieve & db=PubMed & list_uids=1\

2023462 & dopt=Abstract

>

>

> May 21, 2002;99:7616-7621

>

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