My concerns about soy... Mercola article

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Newest Research On Why You Should Avoid Soy

Category: Food and Restaurants

 

Per Dr. Mercola this report compiled by Sally Fallon and Dr. Mary G. Enig is

the most definitive document to date on why one should avoid soy. This is a

MAJOR work and Dr. Mercola is hoping to pormote for the national media attention

that it deserves.

 

http://www.mercola.com/article/soy/avoid_soy.htm

 

Here is the article index:

~ Soy also contains goitrogens - substances that depress thyroid function.

~ Soy Protein Isolate: Not So Friendly

 

~ Marketing The Perfect Food

~ Marketing Costs Money

~ FDA Health Claim Challenged

~ Soy And Cancer

~ Phytoestrogens: Panacea Or Poison?

~ Birth Control Pills For Babies

~ Dissension In The Ranks

~ Question Marks Over GRAS Status

~ The Next Asbestos?

 

It's kind of a long read, but very educational.

Paula

 

 

MrandMrsM <tdbmgroups wrote:

I was a very dedicated soy eater. Soy milk, Tofu, Beans, Tempeh, any

way I could get it. I made much of it myself. We didn't want to eat

dairy. I thought I was doing myself a favour by trying to prevent

the need to use Hormone replacement therapy at menopause.

 

I didn't experience menopause symptoms, but I did experience abnormal

bleeding. After testing, it was found that I had endometrial cancer

of the uterus. One complete hysterectomy later, my ovary was found

to also have a malignant tumour.

 

I was told that these things could possibly have been activated by an

abundance of female hormones. Caused by soy?

 

Speculation? Perhaps-I don't know. I don't want to make such a

statement and I don't want to cause unwarranted fears, since I am no

scientist. I just wouldn't want to take that chance again by eating

so much soy if I had been aware of this concern before.

 

I have since changed my diet radically to almost totally raw

content. I noticed that so many prepared manufactured foods contain

some form of soy. It seems to be all over, and not only in food. I

have had tofu a few times since, but it scares me a little because my

particular type of cancer is well-documented to recur. I hope that

soy and as-yet-unknown other things don't play a part in that.