The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food

The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food | Kaayla T. Daniel | What you NEED to know

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	The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food Kaayla T. Daniel NewTrends Publishing, Inc., 2005 - 480 pages average customer review:based on 66 reviews view larger image
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A groundbreaking expose that tells the truth about soy that scientists know but that the soy industry has tried to suppress. Soy is not a health food, does not prevent disease and has not even been proven safe.ÊÊEpidemiological, clinical and laboratory studies link soy to malnutrition, digestive problems, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders, even heart disease and cancer. HEA000000

Exposed!! How Soy Can Damage Your Health

Are you caught up in the deceptive hype from the soy industry? If so, you have likely been convinced that soy is a health food. This belief is an unfortunate side effect of not having done your homework, relying instead on the brainwashing propaganda of the soy industry, which in many ways is not much different than that of the drug companies.

They have cleverly targeted health conscious consumers with a well thought out; well-financed campaign to convince you that soy is healthy. They were clearly effective, as "healthy soy" is one of the biggest health myths in the health food industry.

I recently had the opportunity to interview Dr. Kaayla Daniel for our Inner Circle Experts Series http://products.mercola.com/inner-circle/ . I had never spoken with her before and was really amazed at the depth of her knowledge on this important topic.

The Truth About Soy

Let me assure you that if you carefully review the thousands of studies published on soy you will reach the following conclusion:

Any possible benefits of consuming soy are FAR outweighed by the well-proven risks of soy.

The problem with many of these studies is that the conclusion is NOT supported by the study, or is only partially true, with serious omissions that are conveniently excluded from the conclusion. For example, they might say that soy reduces your risk of colon cancer but neglect to state that they found it increases your risk of ten other cancers.

You could delve into these studies yourself and form your conclusion, or rely on Dr. Daniel to do this for you. She did her Ph.D. research on this topic, which eventually resulted in this book.

The soy industry has been so effective in their manipulation techniques that they've even been able to hoodwink the FDA to allow soy to carry the health claim of reducing heart disease and cholesterol. However, the FDA may soon retract that claim, thanks to a 65-page petition recently filed by Dr. Daniel, Kilmer McCully M.D., Mary Enig, Ph.D., Galen Knight Ph.D., and the Weston A. Price Foundation.

In 2005, the foundation also successfully stopped a soy-industry petition to the FDA requesting a soy-prevents-cancer health claim. Had it been approved, soy consumption would likely have doubled to more than $8 billion in annual U.S. sales.

Soy Consumption and Thyroid Problems

You might be aware that thyroid problems are pandemic in the U.S., especially in women. Well, one of the major reasons for this is because of the isoflavones in soy that is being widely consumed. Soy protein products contain isoflavones that can damage thyroid function, and for this reason alone should be avoided

The Dangers of Soy Infant Formula

This is perhaps the most tragic use of soy as a food. Many well intentioned parents put their infants on soy formula, either because they believe it is "healthier" or because they are allergic to traditional commercial infant formula.

Either way, it's a prescription for disaster. Soy formula causes harm to your baby in two primary ways.

First, most soy formula has 50 to 80 times the amount of manganese as dairy formula or breast milk, which can adversely affect brain development and lead to ADD/ADHD and other learning disabilities and behavioral disorders.

Additionally, there is the hormonal equivalent of 2 to 5 birth control pills in a daily dose of soy formula, which can cause significantly premature puberty and other sexual abnormalities, thyroid damage and an increased risk of cancer.

In my mind this product should be banned. In fact there was a recent movement in California to have that done but the proposal has been on hold since 2005.

Additionally, there are a number of foreign governments like Israel, France and Germany that have taken very strong anti-soy positions.

This book is an ABSOLUTE must read if someone you know or love is convinced soy is a health food. But even if you don't eat soy, it's still a valuable read, providing an entertaining, in-depth look at the "dirty little secrets" of the food processing industry.

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What you NEED to know

This book starts with a good factual history of soy. It's not your
typical scare book, but rather loaded with facts in an almost historical
novel fashion. If you're eating soy you NEED to read this book. Your health may depend on it.

Caught in the middle of a product war

Like most health-conscious people i stopped drinking milk years ago due to the amount of steroids and antibiotics that milk cows are injected with and get passed on to milk. Milk is not inherently bad for you, but unless i know exactly where the milk is coming from, i won't drink it. I doubt drinking milk from cows pumped with things such as Bovine Growth Hormone can be good for anyone.

So i started researching the alternatives, and soy milk came up.
Then after doing some research online, i was shocked by the amount of negative press and "reviews" soy products have been getting; so i decided to do my own research and purchased a large amount of soy beans to make soymilk at home.
This little experiment showed me (as this book points out) why soybeans are not a staple in any diet in any part of the world, like other beans are: they are pretty much indigestible, regardless of how much you soak them overnight, and cook them..
You can even blend a bunch of cooked soy beans with water to make a shake, but that will leave you with severe indigestion and nausea.
I know because i tried it.
So, yes, most of the things that are said about unfermented soy products are probably true. Unfermented soy products contains a lot of chemicals that cause adverse reaction in humans and probably animals.
Just because soy beans are a naturally occuring vegetable doesn't mean we should be eating them.. after all one of the most potent poisons known to man, Ricin, comes from Castor beans.

The thing that disturbs me, is that as another reviewer pointed out, the research for this book was probably financed by the "Weston A. Price Foundation" which is basically a front that the milk industry uses to smear soy products.
Don't believe me? Richard James, an American lawyer living in New Zealand is the owner of the principal website against soy products.
Do a internet search for "richard james" new+zealand+milk and on the third link down you will find a link to westonprice's website containing a picture of Mr. James in the Weston A. Price "Australia-New Zealand 2003 tour."
Do you think the fact that such soyproduct bashing website is based in New Zealand, the biggest exporter of dairy products in the world, is accidental???
I corresponded directly with Mr. James about the picture in question and his connection with the milk industry and he denied he is getting any funding, he even questioned the fact that New Zealand is the biggest exporter of dairy products in the world, until i showed him the links confirming this; then he proceeded to insult me when i questioned his motivation to create the website... his explanation was that one of his "kids" was affected by soy milk, which contradicts the story given on the website about him starting the website because his "birds" got sick because of soy feed.
This lack of truthfulness makes me doubt the sincerity of Mr. James.. after all he was a lawyer!

Soy products have cost the dairy industry billions of dollars in lost revenue.. do you expect the dairy industry to stand by with their arms crossed and not do anything about it???

Folks, it is time we stop being so gullible.. we are caught between a multi-billion dollar war between the milk and the soy lobbies.
None of these people writing books on behalf of either industry are interested in your health!, they are interested in making money..

Don't believe anything you read.
Any Phd will jump at the chance to do "research" on behalf of any industry for the right amount of money.
Do your own research.
Stop consuming any non-organic, mass-produced dairy products, stop consuming any non-fermented soy products and as a wise reviewer said.. Moderation is the key!

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