Tuesday, March 20, 2012

Problems with Soy

I came across this post on Facebook this morning and I had to re-post (I blacked out the names from the responses to keep them anonymous). I will have to dig further into this and bring you more information:

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SOY - THE NEXT ASBESTOS?
"Against the backdrop of widespread praise...there is growing suspicion that soy - may pose some health hazards," writes Marian Burros, a leading food writer for the New York Times. More than any other writer, Ms Burros's endorsement of a low-fat, largely vegetarian diet has herded Americans into supermarket aisles featuring soy foods. Yet her January 26, 2000 article, "Doubts Cloud Rosy News on Soy", contains the following alarming statement: "Not one of the 18 scientists interviewed for this column was willing to say that taking isoflavones was risk free." Ms Burros did not enumerate the risks, nor did she mention that the recommended 25 daily grams of soy protein contain enough isoflavones to cause problems in sensitive individuals, but it was evident that the industry had recognised the need to cover itself.
Because the industry is extremely exposed...contingency lawyers will soon discover that the number of potential plaintiffs can be counted in the millions and the pockets are very, very deep. Juries will hear something like the following: "The industry has known for years that soy contains many toxins. At first they told the public that the toxins were removed by processing. When it became apparent that processing could not get rid of them, they claimed that these substances were beneficial. Your government granted a health claim to a substance that is poisonous, and the industry lied to the public to sell more soy."
The "industry" includes merchants, manufacturers, scientists, publicists, bureaucrats, former bond financiers, food writers, vitamin companies and retail stores. Farmers will probably escape because they were duped like the rest of us. But they need to find something else to grow before the soy bubble bursts and the market collapses: grass-fed livestock, designer vegetables...or hemp to make paper for thousands and thousands of legal briefs.

Its a big industry Soy is, but just like smoking was and still is, the business aspect will keep this potentially harmful ingredient in our food chain with its potential toxic and health damaging effects being spread throughout the populations with out our knowing. At least we cigarettes we could smell smoke and move out of the way. With soy we choke it down not knowing the vast amount of serious health damaging potential ingredients we are putting into perhaps every cell in our bodies. To use Soy in a meal replacement Weight Loss Shake is one of the most reprehensible acts I have ever seen in health care. Someone somewhere in the chain of making these products has got to know the potential harm they are inflicting on an innocent population!

One of the worst effects of Soy, in my opinion, is that is decreases telomerase, the enzyme that rebuilds telomere units to keep us younger. Shutting down telomerase should in all likelyhood accelerating aging. Not only does Soy have the potential to damage our health in so many ways, now the chance of our aging faster because of it is gasoline on the the bonfire of toxins it has the very real possibility of afflicting us with. Soy-Cigarettes-Asbestos I believe will soon be synonymous with the real potential health hazards of our generation.
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    • Treukh Freukh really? thats crazy man....atleast with cigars (in Canada anyways) most packs says its not a substitute for smoking ciggarettes, while soy is predominatley marketed as a meat substitue lol although I'm having my doubts about farmed meat also.... just heard Loblaws recalled all their meat products from July 2011-Feb 2012 TODAY because of ecoli....
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    • Kira Sandoval Ewww. not good. I can't drink whole milk, so I've been drinking exclusively soy- guess I need to find an alternative. I have to share this on my blog now... is this from an article?
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    • Peter Bigtymer I copy/pasted it from Pete Delmonico's status.
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    • Peter Bigtymer This person posted this on his wall
      Chrystal Docker: Luckily I had a friend that opened my eyes to this awhile back. We only drink raw cow's milk and other varieties such as almond, coconut and occasionally rice.

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