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So, you think you're eating healthy by buying soy products......You’ve replaced milk with soy, and you look for protein bars and various other products containing soy. After all, it is supposed to be high in protein, lower your cholesterol, fight osteoporosis, reduce your risk of cancer, and be heart healthy. How can you go wrong? Truth is, soy may not be the all round good food it’s cracked up to be. In fact, it may be down right unhealthy. New studies show that soy may increase the risk of breast cancer in women, affect brain function in men and cause developmental abnormalities in infants. The soy marketing campaign has truly been phenomenal. Soy was once considered unfit to eat – even in Asia. Soybeans were planted as a rotation crop, not to be eaten, but to add nutrients back into the soil (specifically nitrogen). Soy was not used for food until the discovery of fermentation techniques. The first soy foods were natto, miso, tempeh, and soy sauce. The Chinese did not eat unfermented soybeans due to the large quantities of natural toxins called “antinutrients” they contained.
These antinutrients include potent enzyme inhibitors that
block trypsin and other beneficial enzymes needed to digest protein.
Soybeans also contain haemagglutinin, a clot promoting substance that
causes red blood cells to clump together. These clustered blood cells
cannot properly absorb oxygen for distribution to the body’s tissues,
and are unable to help in maintaining good cardiac health. So,
instead of being supposedly "heart healthy", soy has the opposite
effect. Soy processors have worked hard to get the toxins (antinutrients) out of the finished product, particularly soy protein isolate (SPI). SPI is the key ingredient in most soy foods which imitate meat and dairy products.
Soy Protein Isolate: The acid washing portion of the above process is done in aluminum tanks and can leach high levels of aluminum into the final product. As a result, soy-based baby formula has over 1000% more aluminum than conventional milk based formulas. Finally, the resulting curds are spray-dried at high temperatures to produce high protein powder. Nitrates, potent carcinogens, are formed during spray-drying and a toxin called “lysinoalanine” is formed during the alkaline processing. Food manufacturers then use the Soy Protein Isolate to produce another product, textured vegetable protein, by mean of high pressure extrusion processing. This high temperature processing removes much of the trypsin inhibitor content, but not all. Ironically, high temperature processing denatures the other useful proteins in soy, rendering them largely ineffective for use by the body.
Numerous artificial flavorings, particularly MSG, are
added to soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein products to
mask the strong beany taste and create the flavor of meat and milk.
Soy and breast cancer; does it cause it
or protect against it?
Soy: and thyroid: Isoflavones contained in soy have been isolated as the culprit. Isoflavones are estrogen like compounds plentiful in the soybean (phytoestrogens). The discovery that the isoflavones found in soy were damaging to the thyroid rocked the soy industry that has promoted these phytoestrogens as beneficial. It was found that in normal women, consuming sufficient iodine, it only took 30g of roasted soybeans daily, containing about 38mg.of isoflavones, to depress thyroid function. Sensitive individuals were found to be affected by even less soy.
Soy: The estrogenic equivalent of
The Pill
Soy; infant and child development An alarming number of girls are entering puberty at an early age. A recent study shows that one percent of all girls now show signs of puberty, such as pubic hair or breast development before the age of three. By the age of eight, 14.7 percent of white girls and 48.3 percent of African American girls are showing signs of puberty. Soy has also been implicated in early menarche. Other problems related to soy fed children of both sexes include extreme emotional behavior, asthma, immune system problems, pituitary insufficiency, thyroid disorders and irritable bowel syndrome. There is a movement in Canada and New Zealand to ban the sale of soy infant formula. Over 90% of all soy
is GM (genetically modified) In conclusion, Soy is a very highly processed food. The dangers of soy far outweigh any claims of benefits. The only safe way to eat soy is to consume slow fermented soy such as miso, soy sauce, tempeh, and natto. Information for this article was
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