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...Have you ever wondered
about soy? It's promoted as the miracle food that
will feed the world while at the same time prevent and
cure all manner of diseases.
But what if all
you've read about soy is nothing but a multi-million
dollar marketing strategy based on scanty
facts, half-truths and lies?
Most people remain unaware
that soy is known to contain an array of potent chemical
toxins. The modern manufacturing processes of high-profit
industries make no effort to remove these potent toxins.
High levels of phytic acid, trypsin
inhibitors, toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic
nitrosamines are all present in soy products.
Phytoestrogens
that disrupt endocrine function and are potent antithyroid
agents are present in vast quantities in soy, including
the potentially devastating isoflavone Genistein. Infants
exclusively fed soy-based formula have 13,000 to 22,000
times more estrogen compounds in their blood than babies
fed milk-based formula, the estrogenic equivalent of
at least five birth control pills per day. Premature
development of girls has been linked to the use of soy
formula, as has the underdevelopment of males. Infant
soy formula has been linked to autoimmune
thyroid disease.
Soy is linked to infertility,
breast cancer, hypothyroidism,
thyroid cancer, and many
other disorders.
"Imagine drugs
that are known, by years of scientific documentation,
to be both carcinogenic and to also cause DNA and chromosome
damage being prescribed and administered through the
food supply to populations of many countries around
the world without the knowledge or consent of the individuals
consuming these foods ... with no way to track dosage,
individual reactions, or harmful side-effects ... and
without any concern for some people’s increased vulnerability
to these drugs, such as cancer patients. It sounds
crazy, but that is exactly what is happening around
the world when Soy is added to our food supply. Soy
contains the scientifically documented carcinogenic
and DNA damaging and chromosome damaging natural
chemicals genistein and daidzein." -
True Health, the magazine of Carotec
Inc., Naples, Florida. May/June 2004.
"(Soyfoods)
are not nutrients. They are drugs."
Dr. L. White, Honolulu
Aging Study.
The answer is simple,
given the soy industry
is one of the world's most wealthy and powerful multi-billion
dollar industries.
"Despite
an impressive array of scientific evidence that soy
is not a fit food for man nor beast, the soy marketing
mastodon has marched through the American market like
Sherman through Georgia - and likely doing about as
much damage as Sherman's Union Army did. In our
opinion the widespread use of non-fermented soy is part
of the chronic disease problem since soy is known to
wreak havoc with the human thyroid and other hormone
systems." - True
Health, the magazine of Carotec Inc., Naples, Florida.
May/June 2004.
The result is an industry
that will systematically steamroll anybody that dares
suggest there may be problems with the darling soy.
When we first questioned the safety of soy, a representative
of Protein Technologies told us that they had:
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"... teams
of lawyers to crush dissenters, could buy scientists
to give evidence, owned television channels and
newspapers, could divert medical schools and could even
influence governments..."
This boast has proven all too true,
and you'll be shocked to learn that much of what you've
read about soy is nothing but a con.
Soybeans are widely known to contain
a gamut of natural toxins
- and it makes no difference whether they are organic,
"Round-Up Ready", or in any number of modern
products (see our GUIDANCE
page).
The trouble with modern soy products
is that fast industrial processing does not equate to
historical methods of fermenting
"for two summers" or boiling "for the
length of an incense". The method of modern get-rich-quick
corporations is simply to leave these well-known natural
toxins in our products.
"Among the Hawaii "study's"
conclusions: that tofu accelerates brain weight loss
in aging users, that the more soy you use the more it
impacts your mental abilities, that soy acts like a
drug, not a food." - True
Health, the magazine of Carotec Inc., Naples, Florida.
May/June 2004.
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We are frequently asked
for suggestions. One way to inform your fellow citizens
is to ask your local newspaper to print a factual article,
post one on public and supermarket notice boards, and on Internet
newsgroups. Also in MOMS club and womens' issues websites.
Three which we feel are short,
accurate and to the point are the two by Susan Starr Paddock:
Soy Foods Have Downside For Health
Of Infants, and .Thyroid Problems
Mis-Diagnosed As Depression and the one in "Moonlight
Health", which is authored by a medical doctor.
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DID
YOU KNOW...
...that Solae Corp (aka DuPont and Bunge) claimed fraudulently
that isoflavones can prevent cancer? Read the media
release, and further detail on our Hot
News! Page
...that food giant
Archer Daniels
Midland sought to gain GRAS (Generally Recognised
as Safe) for phytoestrogens? Read what became
of their application.
... that concerns
about the soy phytoestrogens in the human dietare not
new? For example, see the comments made about soy in
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Soy Online Service is a small
group of private citizens with a mission to inform the public
of the truth about soy. We have no membership as such
and are not sponsored by industry or any other group, in fact
our research is funded out of our own pockets. We do
not seek the destruction of the soy industry or to stop people
eating soy. We have no desire to stop you being Vegan
or to cause you to switch to dairy products. Rather
we seek to expose the deceit of the major soy companies and
to uncover the truth about soy products. We do this
by providing you with factual material that you can read for
yourself, so that in the future you can make an informed choice
about what you eat.
Soy Online Service is
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Ugly Bull Award for excellence in the fields
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in white-coats), bullying, bull-necked stubbornness,
deceit (trying to pull the bull over our eyes), bull-headed
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Lower Sperm Counts 25-07-08
Source: The Guardian, July 24, 2008.
Men who eat soya-based foods may be harming
their fertility, doctors said yesterday, after a study
found a link between soya-rich diets and lower sperm
counts. The study showed men who consumed
more than two portions of soya-based foods a week
had, on average, 41m fewer sperm per millilitre of
semen than men who had never eaten soya products.
Read the full
article by Ian Sample here.
Spilling the beans 13-07-08
Toxic Health Food?
How do you adjust to the possibility your
favourite health food is toxic and dangerous? On the
good food website Gremolata.com, Lorette C. Luzajic
writes a great article "Spilling the
Beans". Read
the full article here.
Health Claim Re-evaluation
21-12-07
Opportunity for public comment:
FDA
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is announcing
an opportunity for public comment on its intent to
reevaluate the scientific evidence for two previously
authorized health claims (dietary lipids (fat) and
cancer; soy protein and risk of coronary heart disease)
and two qualified health claims that were the subject
of letters of enforcement discretion (antioxidant
vitamins and risk of certain cancers; selenium and
certain cancers). The agency is undertaking a reevaluation
of the scientific basis for these authorized health
claims and qualified health claims because of new
scientific evidence that has emerged for these substance-disease
relationships. The new scientific evidence may have
the effect of weakening the substance-disease relationship
for these authorized health claims and either strengthening
or weakening the scientific support for the substance-disease
relationship for these qualified health claims. Read
more here...
Health
Committee Petition
14-12-07
Read the Report of the NZ House of Representatives
Health Committee on Petition 2005/123 of Valerie Ann
James and 214 others, submitted with the support of
SoyOnlineService.
The committee heard evidence on 17 October 2007 from
Valerie Ann James, the New Zealand Food Safety Authority
and the Ministry of Health.
"Conclusion: We support the
petitioner’s request for more accurate labels
on soy-based infant formula, which highlight the potential
long-term risks of feeding soy-based infant formula
to infants. We accept that there is evidence that
soy-based formulas have a high phytoestrogen content
that may pose a risk to the long-term reproductive
health of infants. We acknowledge that the current
labels do advise consumers to consult a doctor or
health care worker for advice. However, we believe
it would be prudent to supplement this advice with
more specific wording which points out that the high
phytoestrogen content of soy-based infant formula
may pose a risk to the long term reproductive health
of infants."...
. Read
the full report here
Infant Formula
Warning 6-12-07
12/6/2007 by Ahmed ElAmin.
Bisphenol A (BPA), known as
the 'gender bender' chemical, leaches into liquid
baby formula from the linings of cans at levels dangerous
to infant health, according to new research published
yesterday by a US environmental group. The Environmental
Working Group (EWG) said the research reveals that
Bisphenol-A, used to line nearly all infant formula
cans, was found in at levels "far higher"
in the product than those that leach from plastic
bottles under normal use. EWG had previously estimated
that one out of every 16 infants fed ready-to-eat
liquid formula are exposed to BPA at doses exceeding
those that caused increased aggression and significant
changes in testosterone levels in laboratory animals.
Read more here
Soya Health Warning
6-12-07
The Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) Germany,
has undertaken a health assessment of isoflavone supplements.
BfR found that there is a lack of evidence to confirm
the safety of such supplements, yet there is some
evidence to suggest that there may be health risks.
Long term studies of these extracts are needed to
evaluate the health implications. Read
more here.
Soy Formula Warning
19-11-07
Infant formula and follow-up formula based on cow’s
milk protein or soy protein is for sale in the European
Union. Soy formula should only be administered to
infants over a longer period when this is necessary
on medical grounds. If a mother is unable to breastfeed
her baby, she can fall back on infant formula from
the drug store or supermarket. Products made from
soybean protein and from cow’s milk are on sale.
Soybeans contain high concentrations of isoflavones.
They should, therefore, only be given to infants over
longer periods in exceptional, justified cases. Isoflavones
are similar to the female hormone oestrogen; however,
they have a far weaker effect. Furthermore, soybeans
may also contain higher amounts of the plant component,
phytate. Professor Dr. Dr. Andreas Hensel, President
of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR),
comments, "Infant formula and follow-up formula
made from soy protein should only be administered
on medical grounds and then only under medical supervision."
Read
more here.
Health food caution30-05-07
'Functional Foods' - also known as 'nutraceuticals'
or 'designer foods' - must be monitored to assess
long-term safety and effectiveness, say a group of
scientists writing in today’s British Medical
Journal. Nynke de Jong, project director at the Duth
Institute and colleagues, focused on the potential
risks of cholesterol lowering margarines and yoghurts.
These products, he wrote, could trigger reactions
in people taking statins - drugs that do the same
job but act more powerfully - which might actually
increase their risk of heart disease, the Dutch experts
say. The margarines contain plant sterols which lower
cholesterol but when eaten by people taking statins,
the level of plant sterols in their blood is raised.
There are concerns that this could increase the thickening
of the arteries - and the risk of a heart attack -
and Canada has banned the sale of these product. Download
the British Medical Journal
article here. Also see a related
article in the NZ Hearld, 21st May 2007.
- Death by Veganism22-05-07
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- New York Times; May 21
2007, by NINA PLANCK
- WHEN Crown Shakur died of starvation, he was
6 weeks old and weighed 3.5 pounds. His vegan parents,
who fed him mainly soy milk and apple juice, were
convicted in Atlanta recently of murder, involuntary
manslaughter and cruelty.This particular calamity
— at least the third such conviction of vegan
parents in four years — may be largely due
to ignorance. But it should prompt frank discussion
about nutrition. Read
the full article here.
Sally
Fallon tours NZ23-04-07
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For
our New Zealand readers:
Weston A.
Price journeyed to NZ in the 1930's ( as a guest
of the Govt ) and other countries studying and
documenting traditional diets and their health
benefits. |
Sally Fallon (www.westonaprice.org
) has picked up his work and now travels the world
talking to people about Price's findings and the simple
commonsense ideas our ancestors used to keep their
families alive for centuries. Her team also do a lot
of work investigating the modern dangers of Soy products,
Vegetable oils and the myths about Cholesterol.
Click
here for the details of her current tour
of New Zealand, and booking information,
from Invercargill through Christchurch, Wellington,
Hamilton and Auckland, in May 2007.
The
Trouble with Tofu 30-03-07
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Once
hailed as a wonder food, soya is now at the centre
of a furious debate, blamed for a wealth of health
problems and vilified as an environmental pest,
reports Jolanta Chudy. Read
the article here. Source:
United Arab Emirates Airline inFlight Magazine. |
Estrogenic
effects on boys 07-02-07
A series of three cases of breast enlargement
in prepubertal boys led clinicians to search for a
cause. They discovered that each of the boys had been
using topical applications of products that contained
lavender and tea tree oils. The symptom resolved when
the boys stopped using these products.
Lavender (lavandula)
and tea tree oil (melaleuca) are often added to lotions
and bath products for children. Parents should be
aware of the estrogen-like effects of these, and many
other products. Petroleum derived perfumes and pesticides,
plastics, and soy products all exhibit estrogen effects.
Read the whole article
here.
Cancer Warning
31-01-07
PRIME TV CLIP - A short news article that aired
on Australia's Prime TV on the health warning to cancer
patients and the potential harm of soy products
Download the cip here (6MB)
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