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Note: forwarded message attached.Ronald A. Fells

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The trouble with soy – part 2

December 19, 2006

 

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53425

 

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Last week's column ( " Soy is making kids 'gay' " ) got a lot of

attention – 500 e-mails and three dozen media interview requests –

because it blindsided the overwhelming majority of readers.

 

Perhaps fewer than 10 percent of us are aware that soybeans are a

hotly debated topic in medical circles today. Soy products – eaten,

drunk, and slipped into thousands of commercial products – are

rightly being blamed for a horrendous variety of medical conditions,

several of them nearing epidemic status and a few of them

irreversible. Pediatricians and other doctors are starting to see a

growing parade of patients suffering from serious symptoms that were

quite rare just a generation ago.

 

The shocking statements in my column produced much incredulity, the

more so because I did not footnote or go into detail. I simply did

not have room to introduce all the biggest problems with soy and do

it in a scientific, footnoted format.

 

I will make an attempt to compensate for that shortcoming in this

column and the next few. To keep within the length limit, I will tuck

footnotes and excess text into one continuous hyperlink. You'll have

to click on each " footnote " to see the column in full.

 

Let's start here: The most common question of the past week has been,

" If soy is so harmful as to potentially alter sexual physiology and

behavior, why haven't the Chinese and Japanese all died off or become

homosexual centuries ago? "

 

Three interlocking reasons: Click here for the first two. The third

is that Orientals simply do not eat as much soy as Westerners think.

The average daily consumption in Japan (one of the highest

soy-consuming countries in Asia) is at most about eight grams of soy

protein. China and other countries eat far less.

 

Soy has never been a leading staple there like rice, fish or pork.

Even going back to the 1930s, calorie intake from soy in China was

rarely more than 1.5 percent of their diet, whereas pork provided 65

percent! No comparison. Traditionally, soy plants were plowed under

in fields as fertilizer. Soy was a poverty food, eaten heavily only

by the poor in times of famine. (Grazing animals don't like to eat

it, either.) People have always eaten soy in small portions as a

condiment or a supplement with a meal. The highest intake of soy in

Japan is among monks, who eat it to turn off sexual desire. (Think

about that the next time you're in the grocery store.)

 

By comparison, the FDA has encouraged Americans to eat 25 grams of

soy protein a day as a way to prevent heart disease. This FDA health

claim has doubled the consumption of soy protein in the U.S., yet was

recently discredited when the American Heart Association changed its

position on soy, now saying that soy does not lower cholesterol and

does not prevent heart disease!

 

You couldn't say that FDA opinions are for sale to the highest

bidder, but they were influenced by a campaign and formal endorsement

request by the soy industry, which includes giants like Monsanto,

Archer Daniels Midland, Cargill and DuPont. When the mud hit the fan

during the investigation period, the FDA quickly modified its stance,

limiting its endorsement to just basic soy protein instead of the

isoflavone (estrogen-mimicking) ingredients in soy. The problem with

that is soy protein contains those dangerous plant estrogens. This is

why two of the FDA's most distinguished scientists, Drs. Daniel

Sheehan and Daniel Doerge, protested the FDA health claim in a public

letter.

 

If you think you don't eat much soy, think again. Though only 15

percent of us eat a mostly-soy product once a week, 55-70 percent of

all processed foods in supermarkets now have some soy in them. You

can't escape it. Soybean oil accounts for a whopping 79 percent of

the edible fats used annually in the U.S.

 

Health-conscious people are likely to eat the most. Even a moderate

vegetarian or soy fan would think nothing of tossing down eight

ounces of tofu, a quarter cup of roasted soy nuts and a glass of

soymilk daily, and that's far, far more than any normal Japanese

individual would be likely to consume.

 

But the worst victims of soy are babies. Per kilogram of body weight,

the average Japanese in 2000 ate 0.47 milligrams of soy isoflavones

daily, while the average U.S. baby drinking soy formula got 6.25

milligrams. Isoflavones are testosterone-suppressing female hormones.

 

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http://www.iwantmeaning.com/response.html#10

 

Future " Big Picture " columns will get into low testosterone, estrogen

overload, malformed male genitalia, thyroid damage, infertility,

cervical/ovarian/breast cancer, heart disease, childhood leukemia,

early menarche, and other soy issues.

 

But in an effort to remain " fair & balanced, " as they say at Fox

News, I offer you today three links to articles from prestigious

sources that will tell you how safe and wonderful soy is:

 

* http://www.fda.gov/fdac/features/2000/300_soy.html

* http://www.revivalsoy.com/index.html?flash6=yes

*

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1480510

 

Read these sources in conjunction with the anti-soy sources above,

and you will see that the debate has hardly begun.

 

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