Soy Misinformation Promoted by Cow's Milk Consortium

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To Everyone:

 

For years I have tolerated their growing onslaught of

misinformation about Soy that I decided to posts that

in general, most information relating to soy are quite

positive. Today, I am angry and decided to post this

myself.

 

If you don't believe me about soy is good for you, you

don't have to!

 

You can prove this for yourself!

 

I will tell you how! The secret is here.

 

Do this: go to www.pubmed.org and do a search using

the following keyword as follows:

 

soy cancer

soy dht

soy testosterone

soy estrogen

soy osteoporosis

 

You will then learn the truth and you don't even have

to believe me. I have done this for you already, and

here are the summary in case you don't have time!

True information that I will post the research

citations verbatim directly from research studies as

follows:

 

1. DHT hormones (dihydrotestosterone) are the major

cause of male hormone baldness. When lack of

testosterone does not generate that much DHT stays on

your head. The only known substance to reduce that is

DHT.

 

2. Phytoestrogen has no effect on estrogen levels or

hormone levels or even testosterone.

 

3. Soy helps with osteoporosis.

 

4. Soy reduces cancer and is used to treat cancer

victims.

 

I will post them verbatime below. Now the reason why

such a relentless attack on soy is being made is the

following reason:

 

1. Decreasing milk cows sales.

2. the use of genetically modified cows

3. the use of growth hormones injected into cows which

we drink.

4. The prevalence of mad cow's disease

5. The findings of a chemical toxins and toxic

vaccines in cow's milk.

 

I will not go into this and will correct this grave

soy misinformation. Dr. Mercola has put wrong

information that Asians actually consume fermented

soy, which is good. Actually I am an Asian, we are

consume more soy milk then even fermented soy

products. And it has kept us relatively low of

osteoporosis.

 

Because of so much bombardment against soy. I will not

put any thing here besides research abstract below.

 

Ted from Bangkok

 

Nope: soy does not effect testosterone:

 

Serum prostate-specific antigen but not testosterone

levels decrease in a randomized soy intervention among

men.

Maskarinec G, Morimoto Y, Hebshi S, Sharma S, Franke

AA, Stanczyk FZ.

 

1Cancer Research Center of Hawaii, University of

Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA.

 

Background:Low prostate cancer incidence and high soy

intake in Asian countries suggest a possible

protective effect of soy foods against prostate

cancer. The goal of this pilot study was to evaluate

the feasibility of a randomized, crossover soy trial

among men and to investigate the effects of daily soy

intake on serum prostate-specific antigen (PSA) and

testosterone levels.Methods:We randomized 24 men to a

high or a low soy diet for 3 months. After a 1-month

washout period, the men crossed over to the other

treatment. During the high soy diet, the men consumed

two daily soy servings; during the low soy diet, they

maintained their usual diet. During the entire study

each man donated four blood samples and five overnight

urine samples. Dietary compliance was assessed by soy

calendars, 24-h dietary recalls, and urinary

isoflavone excretion measured by high-pressure liquid

chromatography with photodiode array detection. Blood

samples were analyzed for serum testosterone and PSA

by radioimmunoassay. When necessary, variables were

log transformed. Two sample t-tests compared the two

groups before each study period. Mixed models

incorporating the repeated measurements were used to

evaluate the effect of the soy diet on urinary

isoflavone excretion and serum

analytes.Results:Twenty-three men aged 58.7+/-7.2

years completed the study. The compliance with the

study regimen was high according to self-reported soy

food intake and urinary isoflavone excretion. No

significant between-group and within-group differences

were detected. During the high soy diet, dietary

isoflavone intake and urinary isoflavone excretion

increased significantly as compared to the low soy

diet. A 14% decline in serum PSA levels (P=0.10), but

no change in testosterone (P=0.70), was observed

during the high soy diet in contrast to the low soy

diet.Conclusion:The high adherence as shown by three

measures of compliance in this pilot trial

demonstrated the feasibility of an intervention based

on soy foods among free-living men.European Journal of

Clinical Nutrition advance online publication, 14 June

2006; doi:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602473.

 

PMID: 16775579 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]

 

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Asians have less osteporosis because of soy milk

consumption! We consume more soy milk then the so

called fermented things that Dr. Mercola claims!

 

Osteoporosis prevention education programme for women.

Chan MF, Ko CY.

 

School of Nursing, The Hong Kong Polytechnic

University, Hung Hom, Hong Kong SAR, China.

hsmfchan

 

AIM: This paper reports an evaluation of a

nurse-initiated education programme on four specific

osteoporosis prevention behaviours which led to their

adoption or to positive attitude changes. BACKGROUND:

In the past, osteoporosis was a serious health concern

that most commonly affected women in Northern Europe

and the United States of America, but was less

commonly seen in Asian women. However, in Hong Kong,

osteoporosis is currently among the top five

conditions causing disability and prolonged hospital

stay for older people. From an economic perspective,

the most cost-effective approach is to focus on

primary prevention via education, and nurses often

have the responsibility of providing such educational

programmes. METHOD: A randomized controlled study was

conducted from July 2004 to March 2005 with 76 women

(38 cases and 38 controls) recruited in two private

beauty clinics in Hong Kong. Pre-, post- and follow-up

education data were compared regarding attitudes and

adoption frequency before and after the education

programme. RESULTS: The results showed statistically

significant increases for each behaviour: consumption

of soy foods (P < 0.001), milk (P < 0.001), more

exercise (P = 0.01) and vitamin D/exposure to sunlight

(P < 0.001) for the case group compared with the

control group. Most participants either disagreed (n =

15, 39.0%) or strongly disagreed (n = 23, 61.0%) that

there was not enough information provided in the

education programme to motivate them to change. They

rated the nurse's performance as either satisfactory

or very satisfactory on presentation, ability to

answer their questions and ability to describe each

behaviour clearly. CONCLUSION: Although positive

results with a nurse-initiated education programme

were demonstrated, future research examining the

effects of education and occupation on these four

adoption behaviours should focus on more diverse

populations with respect to age, income or ethnicity.

The findings suggest the value of creative approaches

in future health education for the prevention of

osteoporosis, and the need for a critical appraisal of

current strategies and a re-evaluation of services and

funding.

 

PMID: 16553702 [PubMed - in process]

 

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A rat study confirms improve bone when fed with soy

 

Soy affects trabecular microarchitecture and favorably

alters select bone-specific gene expressions in a male

rat model of osteoporosis.

Soung DY, Devareddy L, Khalil DA, Hooshmand S, Patade

A, Lucas EA, Arjmandi BH.

 

Department of Nutrition, Food & Exercise Sciences,

Florida State University, 436 Sandels Bldg,

Tallahassee, Florida, 32306-1493, USA,

arjmand.

 

We have recently reported that soy isoflavones

particularly when provided in the context of soy

protein are capable of preventing loss of bone mineral

density due to orchidectomy in F344 rats. We

hypothesize, that soy isoflavones also exert

beneficial effects on bone microstructural properties,

in part, by enhancing bone formation. Therefore, in

the present study, we examined the dose-dependent

effects of soy isoflavones on femoral bone

microarchitectural properties and select bone-specific

gene expressions in the same rat model. Seventy-two,

13-month old rats were either orchidectomized (ORX; 5

groups) or sham-operated (Sham; 1 group) and

immediately placed on dietary treatments for 180 days.

Four of the ORX groups were fed either casein- or soy

protein-based diets each with one of two doses of

isoflavones either 600 or 1200 mg/kg diet. Rats in the

remaining ORX control and Sham groups were fed a

control casein-based diet. Soy protein at the high

isoflavone dose, and to a lesser extent with the lower

dose, reduced the magnitude of the ORX-induced

decreases in trabecular bone volume (BV/TV) and

trabecular number (Th.N) and increase in trabecular

separation (Tb.Sp) at the femoral neck site. These

modulations of trabecular microstructural properties

by isoflavones may be due to increased mRNA levels of

alkaline phosphatase (ALP), collagen type I (COL), and

osteocalcin (OC), which are associated with enhanced

bone formation. These findings confirm our earlier

observations that the modest bone protective effects

of soy isoflavones are due to increased rate of bone

formation.

 

PMID: 16830200 [PubMed - in process

 

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Soy reduces dangerous DHT that causes you to go bald

But yet had no effect on good hormones!

 

 

1: J Nutr. 2005 Mar;135(3):584-91.

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Soy protein isolates of varying isoflavone content

exert minor effects on serum reproductive hormones in

healthy young men.

Dillingham BL, McVeigh BL, Lampe JW, Duncan AM.

 

Department of Human Biology and Nutritional Sciences,

University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.

 

Inverse associations between soy and prostate cancer

and the contribution of hormones to prostate cancer

prompted the current study to determine whether soy

protein could alter serum hormones in men. Thirty-five

men consumed milk protein isolate (MPI),

low-isoflavone soy protein isolate (SPI) (low-iso SPI;

1.64 +/- 0.19 mg isoflavones/d), and high-iso SPI

(61.7 +/- 7.35 mg isoflavones/d) for 57 d each in a

randomized crossover design. Twenty-four-hour urine

samples indicated that urinary isoflavones were

significantly increased by the high-iso SPI relative

to the low-iso SPI and MPI. Serum collected on d 1,

29, and 57 of each treatment revealed that

dihydrotestosterone (DHT) and DHT/testosterone were

significantly decreased by the low-iso SPI [9.4% (P =

0.036) and 9.0% (P = 0.004), respectively] and the

high-iso SPI [15% (P = 0.047) and 14% (P = 0.013),

respectively], compared with the MPI at d 57. Other

significant effects included a decrease in

testosterone by the low-iso SPI relative to the MPI (P

= 0.023) and high-iso SPI (P = 0.020) at d 29; an

increase in dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate by the

low-iso SPI relative to the MPI at d 29 (P = 0.001)

and relative to the MPI (P = 0.0003) and high-iso SPI

(P = 0.005) at d 57; and increases in estradiol and

estrone by the low-iso SPI relative to the MPI at d 57

(P = 0.010 and P = 0.005, respectively). In

conclusion, soy protein, regardless of isoflavone

content, decreased DHT and DHT/testosterone with minor

effects on other hormones, providing evidence for some

effects of soy protein on hormones. The relevance of

the magnitude of these effects to future prostate

cancer risk requires further investigation.

 

PMID: 15735098 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Soy is used in cancer treatment!! Cancer causing? You

have been lied to by the Cow's milk consortium! Yes it

protects against Prostate Cancer!

 

Effects of a diet rich in phytoestrogens on

prostate-specific antigen and sex hormones in men

diagnosed with prostate cancer.

Dalais FS, Meliala A, Wattanapenpaiboon N, Frydenberg

M, Suter DA, Thomson WK, Wahlqvist ML.

 

International Health and Development Unit, Monash

University, Clayton, VIC, Australia.

 

OBJECTIVES: To determine the effects of diets rich in

soy and linseed compared with a control diet on

biochemical markers of prostate cancer in men

diagnosed with prostate cancer. METHODS: Twenty-nine

men diagnosed with prostate cancer and scheduled to

undergo a radical prostatectomy were randomized to one

of three groups: soy (high phytoestrogen), soy and

linseed (high phytoestrogen), or wheat (low

phytoestrogen). A bread was specially manufactured to

incorporate 50 g of heat-treated (HT) soy grits or 50

g of HT soy grits and 20 g of linseed as part of the

study participant's daily diet. Baseline and

preoperative levels of prostate-specific antigen

(PSA), free PSA, testosterone, sex hormone-binding

globulin, free androgen index, and dihydrotestosterone

were measured. RESULTS: Statistically significant

differences were detected between the HT soy grits

group and the control wheat group for the percentage

of change in total PSA (-12.7% versus 40%, P = 0.02)

and the percentage of change in free/total PSA ratio

(27.4% versus -15.6%, P = 0.01); and between the HT

soy grits group and the HT soy grits and linseed group

for the percentage of change in free androgen index

(16.4% versus -15.5%, P = 0.04) and the percentage of

change in free/total PSA ratio (27.4% versus -10%, P =

0.007). CONCLUSIONS: The data from this study indicate

that a daily diet containing four slices of a bread

rich in HT soy grits favorably influences the PSA

level and the free/total PSA ratio in patients with

prostate cancer. This work provides some evidence to

support epidemiologic studies claiming that male

populations who consume high phytoestrogen diets have

a reduced risk of prostate cancer development and

progression.

 

PMID: 15351581 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

 

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Genistein and daizein is o.k.

 

Genistein and daidzein downregulate prostate

androgen-regulated transcript-1 (PART-1) gene

expression induced by dihydrotestosterone in human

prostate LNCaP cancer cells.

Yu L, Blackburn GL, Zhou JR.

 

Nutrition/Metabolism Laboratory, Department of

Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard

Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA.

 

Epidemiologic investigations and laboratory studies

suggest that bioactive soy phytochemical components

may be used as an effective dietary regimen for

prevention of prostate cancer. Studies designed to

identify new genes that are responsive to androgens

and are sensitive to the prevention of prostate cancer

using soy bioactive components have become a research

priority. In this study, we determined the effect of

soy isoflavones on the expression of prostate

androgen-regulated transcript 1 (PART-1), a newly

discovered androgen-induced gene that may represent a

novel androgen-dependent prostate cancer tumor marker.

In an androgen-depleted cell culture system,

5alpha-dihydrotestosterone (DHT) induced expression of

PART-1 transcript in androgen-sensitive LNCaP, but not

in androgen-independent DU 145 or PC-3 human prostate

cancer cells. The soy isoflavones genistein and

daidzein dose-dependently inhibited DHT-induced

expression of the PART-1 transcript. Genistein at 50

micro mol/L completely inhibited expression of the

PART-1 transcript in LNCaP cells induced by DHT at 0.1

and 1.0 nmol/L. Daidzein was less potent than

genistein, whereas glycitein at the same levels as

genistein or daidzein did not inhibit DHT-induced

PART-1 transcript expression. Our studies suggest that

use of the PART-1 gene as a biomarker for evaluating

the efficacy of soy isoflavones on androgen-dependent

prostate cancer warrants further investigation.

 

PMID: 12566472 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]