What's Up With Soy ?

Health Claims

There have recently been a spate of health claims made for the soybean. Careful examination of the research does not support these claims.

The cholesterol lowering research shows that cholesterol is lowered in 20 percent of the cases over the 350 level but not in people below 250. Almost anything other than lard will reduce cholesterol over 350 (unless the body is out of control and producing the cholesterol itself, in which case medication sometimes doesn't even work). You should try to keep your cholesterol in the 150 to 180 range (see your doctor).

The claims about reducing breast cancer are based upon very slender research, namely a small select group of Japanese women, who are probably genetically not prone to breast cancer. The test needs to be performed upon women with a tendency toward or family history of breast cancer. Then see what soy does!

Soybeans have a component which stimulates estrogen production (in both men and women) and most doctors don't recommend using estrogen in any form for people with a family history of breast cancer or fibroid tumors. A Report released this June states that women who take estrogen for more than ten years have an increased risk of breast cancer. A Yale physician specifically warned us off estrogen way back in the 1970's. Menopause is a poor time, because of the stress, to take soy as an estrogen replacement because the stress can trigger an allergy to soy (as more and more women are writing to us). See Developing a Soy Allergy below.

Infertility. There should be an investigation of whether soy causes infertility in men (low sperm count) because of soy's estrogen stimulating properties. We suggest that males cut out soy for three months before trying to impregnate.

If you do away with the milk, the eggs, real cheese, coca butter, then what are you left with, anything real; no, and the taste is not what it once was either which makes little sense!

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