Guest guest Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 One must sift the evidence not only of printed sources but of one's own body, then decide. And one must decide alone. You now claim a decade's research, but was it systematic, scientific, or just haphazard reading? Was it in a laboratory or in consumer magazines? Carries very little weight -- I mean, I've been researching eating as a means of keeping myself alive for over 46 years now, including many actual experiments. Doesn't make me an expert. On Friday, August 6, 2004, at 07:09 AM, wrote: > Message: 10 > Thu, 5 Aug 2004 15:49:32 -0700 (PDT) > reptile grrl <reptilegoddess > Re: Go Check Before Talking > > > > The Stewarts <stews9 wrote: > > > >> From the article: " ...Okinawan elders eat an average of two servings of > flavonoid-rich soy products per day. " > > And this still doesn't say what kind. > >> And to be honest, no it didn't. He cites sources you can >check. Go >> check >> them. > > I have checked most of them. This is research I've been doing for over a > decade. The only difference is that when I ate soy, I thought that any > article, book, or study which had something negative to say about soy was > just propaganda. > > > Non nobis solum sed toti mundo nati. [Not for ourselves, but for the whole world, were we born.] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted August 6, 2004 Report Share Posted August 6, 2004 I'd say a combination of " systematic " and " haphazard reading. " Most of what I read these days are reports on medical studies. When I started I read mostly books & articles about vegetarianism, but as I grew older I wanted more answers. And of course there are the ongoing experiments on my own body. I started out with researching when I went vegetarian. Whenever I was assigned a paper in school, I would write it on vegetarianism if possible. When I became a teenager, people would often attack my choice, and I learned a lot about vegetarianism in order to defend myself in school. So, I kept reading. This was before the wide-scale promotion of soy fods. It was almost impossible to find tofu in a grocery store here, then, and when one did find it, it was usually that crappy silken extra-soft stuff in the sterile packs, the kind that did not need to be refrigerated before opening. In my years working in medicine, I of course kept learning about nutrition. It helped to have two nutritionists at work, one vegetarian and one not, whose brain I could pick. And then there was my own illness. It pushed me even further, gave me an even greater reason to learn about improving my health, eating as well as I could. The Stewarts <stews9 wrote: One must sift the evidence not only of printed sources but of one's own body, then decide. And one must decide alone. You now claim a decade's research, but was it systematic, scientific, or just haphazard reading? Was it in a laboratory or in consumer magazines? Carries very little weight -- I mean, I've been researching eating as a means of keeping myself alive for over 46 years now, including many actual experiments. Doesn't make me an expert. New and Improved Mail - Send 10MB messages! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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