Dr Bob the Health
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Soy
is not a Health Food
I have been saying for years that soy is unhealthy
and have not written much on the topic but with this step taken by Sally Fallon
and the Weston A Price Foundation along with Kaayla Daniel (she wrote the book "The Whole
Soy Story") I want to add my two cents worth.
Their
main thrust is that soy in processed foods is unhealthy and that is true, but I
want to add that soy is produced on warn-out soil with toxic fertilizers, Round
Up Ready soy beans that use extra herbicides, pesticides. Round Up Ready means that
the beans are Genetically Modified by Monsanto. Actually over 95 % of soy beans
are Genetically Modified.
According
to Jeffery Smith, author of "Seeds of Deception", we are all eating GM foods
that are in all processed foods in grocery stores and restaurants (expensive
and fast food). The most common GM foods in processed foods are soy and corn.
In effect, we are walking, talking guinea pigs for experimentation by Monsanto
and industrial food manufacturers. There are all kinds of new allergies caused
by these "foods" along with diseases that no one knows
about - yet.
Please read the following article that I got from
the Mercola newsletter, then go to the web address to read the full story about
the papers that were filed in our behalf to the government.
The Weston A. Price
Foundation, a nonprofit nutrition education foundation, has submitted a
petition to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asking them to change a rule
that currently allows soy protein to carry a heart disease health claim.
Manufacturers of soy products have been able to label them "heart healthy"
since 1999. The Weston A. Price Foundation's 65-page petition was filed in
response to the FDA's request for public comment on the issue.
"We have filed this petition because there was never a sound basis for a
soy health claim and the heavy marketing of soy as a 'miracle food' has put
American men, women and children at risk," said Kaayla Daniel, lead author
of the petition that was officially filed by Sally Fallon, president of the
foundation.
The petition documents longstanding concern in the scientific community --
including the FDA's own Laboratory for Toxicological Research -- regarding
soy's possible role in:
- Carcinogenesis
- Thyroid disease
- Reproductive health problems including infertility
- Other illnesses
Further,
the Foundation claims that the evidence on soy protein and heart disease is
"contradictory and inconsistent, and no standard of scientific agreement
has been met."
http://westonaprice.org/soy/FDASoyHeartLetterFinal.pdf
There are so many things to say about soy and not
enough space to put it in this newsletter, but let me add some things to think
about.
There are all kinds of people who believe that they
or their children are lactose intolerant when in fact they are chemical
intolerant of grocery store "white stuff". We must realize that the "white
stuff" is not milk but a processed denatured chemical. (Check this out at the
website www.westonaprice.org
)
When people believe that they are lactose intolerant
they turn to Soy "Milk" (it can't be milk if it did not come out of an udder)
and they could not pick anything worse than Soy "Milk".
Soy is loaded with phyto estrogens that imitate
human estrogens. Giving soy "milk" to infant girls and boys is like giving them
a prescription for estrogens. Children do not need estrogens as they contribute
to the early sexual development of girls and who knows what it does to little
boys. I do have a question that I can't answer about boys and phyto estrogens -
"Can this "toxic drug" cause some boys to become homosexual?
Another aspect of the phyto estrogens cannot be good
for women either, particularly if they are already on hormones.
Corporations pushing soy want you to believe that
soy is a staple food in Asia and that simply is not true. Very little of the
Asian diet is soy and the only soy in their diets is fermented which destroys
the toxins, phyto estrogens. In 1977, a
report "Food in Chinese Culture" reports that soy foods accounted for only 1.5
percent of calories in the Chinese diet, compared with 65 percent of calories
from pork.
The following is an explanation of the fermentation
process and the 4 "soy foods" eaten by Asians.
After a long fermentation process, the phytate
(which blocks your body's uptake of essential minerals) and antinutrient levels
of soybeans are reduced, and their beneficial properties become available to
your digestive system.
- Natto, fermented
soybeans with a sticky texture and strong, cheese-like flavor. This one is
my favorite, and I personally eat it nearly every day (it has the highest
concentration of vitamin k in the
human diet) and is also loaded with nattokinase, a very powerful blood
thinner.
- Tempeh, a
fermented soybean cake with a firm texture and nutty, mushroom-like
flavor.
- Miso, a
fermented soybean paste with a salty, buttery texture (commonly used in
miso soup).
- Soy sauce:
traditionally, soy sauce is made by fermenting soybeans, salt and enzymes;
however, be wary because many varieties on the market are made
artificially using a chemical process.
Should we eat soy products - absolutely NEVER! Even
if they are fermented in this country you can't trust the product because it
probably is from Genetically Modified Monsanto beans. After all the recent
scandals on food from China, I would not knowingly eat food from China. If the
fermented foods were from Japan and other Asian countries it is probably ok to
consume.
We all need to become activists and read labels and
then complain to industrial food manufacturers. If enough of us start
complaining and corporations think their income will suffer, they will listen
and they will change what you buy and eat. They changed in Europe and it can
happen here.
To Your Good
Health
Dr Bob the
Health Builder
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