Soy Alert!

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Soy Alert!

Confused About Soy?--Soy Dangers Summarized

·         High levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc. Phytic acid in soy is not neutralized by ordinary preparation methods such as soaking, sprouting and long, slow cooking. High phytate diets have caused growth problems in children.

·         Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders. In test animals soy containing trypsin inhibitors caused stunted growth.

·         Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women.

·         Soy phytoestrogens are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.

·         Vitamin B₁₂ analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body's requirement for B₁₂.

·         Soy foods increase the body's requirement for vitamin D.

·         Fragile proteins are denatured during high temperature processing to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein.

·         Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.

·         Free glutamic acid or MSG, a potent neurotoxin, is formed during soy food processing and additional amounts are added to many soy foods.

·         Soy foods contain high levels of aluminum which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.

 

Here are some of the studies done showing adverse effects of Soy

2000
Nagata C. Ecological study of the association between soy product intake and mortality from cancer and heart disease in Japan. International Journal of Epidemiology Oct 2000; 29(5):832-6. This study contained the following official conclusion: "The present study provides modest support for the preventive role of soy against stomach cancer and heart disease death." However, only the association with lower heart disease death is correct. What the study actually found was that "Soy protein intake was significantly correlated with stomach cancer mortality rate in men" and "soy product intake estimated as total amount as well as isoflavone and soy protein intake were significantly positively correlated with colorectal cancer mortality rates in both sexes." In other words, men who consumed lots of soy had more stomach cancer and men and women who consumed lots of soy had more colorectal cancer. These results are especially interesting as soy proponents often claim that Asians have lower rates of colorectal cancer because they eat more soy.
2001 
Strom BL and others. Exposure to soy-based formula in infancy and endocrinological and reproductive outcomes in young adulthood. JAMA 2001 Nov 21;286(19):2402-3. Although reported in the media as a vindication of soy infant formula, the study actually found that soy-fed infants had more reproductive problems and more asthma as adults.
2001
Massey LK and others. Oxalate content of soybean seeds (Glycine max: Leguminosae), soyfoods, and other edible legumes. J Agric Food Chem 2001 Sep;49(9):4262-6. Soy foods were found to be high in oxalates and likely to contribute to kidney stones.
2002
Khalil DA and others. Soy protein supplementation increases serum insulin-like growth factor-I in young and old men but does not affect markers of bone metabolism. J Nutr 2002 Sep;132(9):2605-8. Men consuming soy protein had higher levels of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-I) than those consuming milk protein. According to many other studies (but not stated in the report), high levels of IFG-I are also found in rBGH milk and have been implicated in causing hormonal cancers.
2002
Sun CL and others. Dietary soy and increased risk of bladder cancer: the Singapore Chinese Health Study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev. 2002 Dec;11(12):1674-7. People who consumed 92.5 grams of soy per 1000 Kcal were found to be 2.3 times more likely to be at risk for bladder cancer. The results were calculated to factor in levels of education and cigarette consumption in study participants.
2003
Lack G and others. Factors associates with the development of peanut allergy in childhood. N Engl J Med 2003 Mar 13;348(11):977-85. The number of children with life-threatening peanut allergies has tripled during the last decade. This study suggests a link between consumption of soy-based formula and the development of peanut allergies. Scientists at the University of Bristol monitored 14,000 babies in the southwest of England. Among the 49 children who developed a peanut allergy, almost a quarter had consumed soy milk during their first two years. (Less than 5 percent of babies overall receive soy formula in the UK.) According to lead researcher Gideon Lack, "These results suggest that sensitization to peanut may possibly occur. . . as a result of soya exposure."
2004
Conrad S and others. Soy formula complicates management of congenital hypothyroidism.Archives of Disease in Childhood 2004 Jan;89(1):37-40. Soy formula was found to increase the level of thyroid stimulating hormones in infants.
2008
Hogervorst E and others. High Tofu Intake Is Associated with Worse Memory in Elderly Indonesian Men and Women. Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 2008;26(1):50-7. The study found that those who ate tofu regularly had worse memory than those who did not. The study also found that tempe consumption increased memory, possibly due to its high levels of folate caused by fermentation.
2008
Banta JP and others. Whole soybean supplementation and cow age class: Effects on intake digestion, performance and reproduction of beef cows. J Anim Sci 2008.86: 1868-78. Experiments conducted found that whole soybean supplement caused increased luteal activity in mature cows at the start of the breeding season . In 2 year old cows it caused less luteal activity than normal.

FLU SHOT ANYONE?

Before you take your flu shots, here is something to consider.....

Nutrition News and Views, November/December 2010, Vol. 14, No. 6
How effective are flu vaccines?  The vaccine formula change each year.  Usually in the spring, three flu strains are chosen based on guesswork, flu outbreaks in Asia, and recommendations of the World Health Organization. The guess is frequently wrong.  Researchers divide flu in two types.  One is blamed on influenza A or B viruses which afflict fewer than 15% of people who appear to have flu.  The flu vaccines applies to this type.  All other forms of flu (85%) are referred to as influenza-like illness.  Both types produce exactly the same symptoms.  It's just that specific flu viruses can't be found in influenza-like illness.  Vaccine researcher Tom Jefferson, MD, explains:  "The flu is not caused by a single 'bug' --about one-third of all influenza is caused by an unknown agent; about one-third are caused by rhinoviruses, the same viruses that cause the common cold; and the remainder are a mixed bag of other agents including influenza A and B viruses and members of the coronavirus family,"  Anywhere from 150-200 viruses are implicated in causing the symptoms.  What makes it really complicated, he says, is that they all appear to cause the same illness.  What we see every year as flu may be caused by 200 to 300 different agents (viruses and others).  A vaccine is offered against a few influenza A and/or B viruses, though no one can predict which strains of or how much A or B will be applicable.  Since the A and B viruses account only for a small percentage (15%) of all flu-type cases, in no way can the vaccine prevent the type of lue that the vast majority of people get.

Here are some other quotes from the article...
"There is no evidence whatsoever that seasonal influenza vaccines have any effect, especially in the elderly and young children.  No evidence of reduced cases, deaths, complications."

September 2, 2008 AMA Morning Rounds headline read:  "Researchers suggest influenza vaccine's effectiveness in elderly patients may have been exaggerated by earlier observational studies."  The earlier studies seemed to show that vaccines were effective when they really were not.

February, 2010 Cochrane Database of System Reviews shows that flu vaccines keep coming up short.  Dr Roger Thomas explained that what troubled the researchers was that the vaccines had no effect on laboratory-confirmed flu.  They looked for proof of reductions in flu, pneumonia, and deaths from pneumonia.  They didn't find any of these.

An early 2010 study implicated the 2008 flu vaccine in causing an increase of risk for 2009 H1N1 swine flu.

--This is my own opinion, I think flu-vaccine is just another way of big PHAMA company scaring the innocents and making huge profits out of it.  Sad, but true.

Food, Inc

Anybody else watched this movie? No, then go WATCH it.  I already knew some of the things they do at those chicken farms, but to actually seeing them is pretty shocking.

Letter from Chief Sealth of the Duwamish Tribe(area in state of Washington) to President Franklin Pierce

Currently I am reading this book called "Sugar Blues," it is a great book.   It came out 1975, but still applies to today.  It's kind of scary that we still have the same problems they had in 1975.  I guess, it guess says people never learn or don't want to learn.

Anyways, in this book, the author (William Dufty) mentions this letter that the Chief Sealth of Duwamish Tribe wrote to President Franklin Pierce protesting the president's proposal to buy the tribal lands.  "His letter warned of the white man's corruptive, destructive habits:",

page 116

     How can you buy or sell the sky-the warmth of the land?  The idea is strange to us.  We do not own the freshness of the air or the sparkle of the water.  How can you buy them from us?
     We know that the white man does not understand our ways.  One portion of the land is the same to him as the next for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs.  The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on.  He leaves his father's graves, and his children's birthright is forgotten.
      The air is precious to the red man.  For all things share the same breath--the beasts, the trees, the man.  The white man does not seem to notice the air he breathes.  Like a man dying for many days, he is numb to the stench...
     The white man must treat the beasts of this land as his brother.  I am a savage and I do not understand the other way.  I have seen a thousand rotting buffaloes on the prairies left by the white man who shot them from a passing train.
     What is man without the beasts? If all the beasts were gone, men would die from great loneliness of spirit, for whatever happens to the beast also happens to man.  All things are connected.  Whatever befalls the earth befalls the sons of the earth.
     One thing we know which the white man will one day discover.  Our God is the same God.  You may think now that you own him as you wish to own our land.  But you cannot.  He is the Body of man.  And his compassion is equal for the red man and the white man.  This earth is precious to him.  And to harm the earth is to heap contempt on its creator. ... Continue to contaminate your bed and you will one night suffocate in your own waste.
     We might understand if we knew what it was that the white man dreams, what hopes he describes to his children on long winter nights, what visions he burns into their minds...
     Our warriors have felt shame.  And after defeat.  - East West Journal, Boston, letter from Dale Jones of Seattle.

It is pretty amazing about what he said about the Land and the Air.  We are contaminating the land with all those pesticides and fertilizers the farmers put in.  The Air, of course the pollutions.  I am sad to say I am also part of the problem because I drive.

Going Back To The Basics of Human Health

That is the title of the book I'm currently reading.  It is a great book.  If you want to live a healthy life without medicine and surgeries, then you must read this.  It will explain to you what you need to avoid, what to eat, and how diseases happen.

This is just an example and some of these are just basic science that health professionals just forgot about.

High insulin levels causes
-high blood pressure
-high cholesterol
-diabetes
-heart disease

And what causes high insulin level....Consumption of large quantities of carbohydrate produce large quantities of insulin.  Very basic.  Carbohydrates are composed of various sugar molecules(glucose), bonded chemically.  Once you have eaten a carbohydrate, your body has digestive enzymes that break these chemical bonds and release the sugar molecules into the blood.  Then insulin is released from the pancreas once the blood sugar level gets too high, as it does in a carbohydrate meal.  So what insulin is doing is storing excess food energy (sugar) for later and keeps our blood sugar from getting too high.

And of course, regular American meal has lots of carbohydrates.  It is not surprising to see a lot of people have high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes, and heart disease.  So eat a meal that has high protein, low in carbohydrates.  Simple enough, but unfortunately, the foods that tastes really good are made of carbohydrates.. cake, pizza, fries, bread, mac and cheese, hash brown, and cookies. 

It does take some sacrifices, but when you are feeling healthy and living a healthy life, then it is worth it.

The Dirty Dozen

 These are good to know the next time you go shopping!


The Dirty Dozen (foods with most pesticide)

Celery
Peaches
Strawberries
Apples
Domestic blueberries
Nectarines
Sweet bell peppers
Spinach, kale and collard greens
Cherries
Potatoes
Imported grapes
Lettuce


The Clean 15 (foods with least pesticide)

Onions
Avocados
Sweet corn
Pineapples
Mango
Sweet peas
Asparagus
Kiwi fruit
Cabbage
Eggplant
Cantaloupe
Watermelon
Grapefruit
Sweet potatoes
Sweet onions