Posted on 10/07/2016 4:33:15 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Soy is high in estrogen and men who eat too much of it are neutering themselves.
The same can be said of Kefir , yogurt, sauerkraut, kimchee, tempeh and others....
I never tried Natto but I sure like Kombucha.
I always liked natto....
I’m not sure if I was eating Natto Beans, but I had a Japanese dinner some years ago, and a portion of it tasted exactly like boiled Rubber Bands. I’m not into Sushi either. I always like their Terriyaki Chicken or BBQ Pork though.
Good for the writer, taking her son to restaurants for a sit down dinner. They learn how to wait, and how to make a decision on what to order in a timely manner.
He won’t ever forget having a fun Japanese Dinner experience with Mom!
Natto is fermented. Whole different thing, very healthy.
I fondly remember the Iron Chef natto episode. May be healthy, but that stuff sure looked gross.
But that episode was sill better than “secret ingredient is turtle” episode. Had to cut that one right off.
+ about a million. Well said.
Unfermented soy is pretty toxic. Fermented soy is extremely good for you.
Hey, I’m a big fan of eating rotting veggies. Yum!
One hundred grams of soy protein = 500 mg of isoflavones in the form of genistein — a very high dose. That's the same amount of estrogen as a birth control pill. Thus,links to breast cancer, DNA damage and chromosome fragmentation, and feminization of males.
But none of those nasty effects are found in Japanese who eat lots of soy, because they eat nearly ALL of it in fermented form: Natto, Miso, Tempeh, fermented soy sauce (tamari), Fermented or pickled tofu. The fermentation enzymes evidently break down the bad phytochemicals in soy.
Natto is loaded with the good stuff.
But I tasted it once and thought I'd die :o/
Alas, it's undeniably one of the healthiest foods in the world. I think if you took one little natto-ized bean, and blenderized it into a big bowl of soup, maybe it could be OK.
That's my bacon-and-eggs American opinion!
I just started kefir three days ago and that’s wild enough for me.
It’s interesting that people are concerned about the estrogen in soy, but they’ll eat meat crammed with estrogen and hormones. What’s the difference?
Where the big contradiction comes in, is they're perfectly OK with birth control pills, injectable-implantable-transdermal hormonal contraceptives and other endocrine-disrupting birth control methods.
Lots of women put stuff in their bodies they wouldn't put in their compost pile.
I’m not a nutritional expert, but beware of misunderstanding the estrogen family of chemicals.
Category:Estrogens
The phytoestrogen found in plants is is not the same chemical compound as the human steroid estrogen. In fact, the phytoestrogen from eating plants helps to block the effects of estrogen.
Corrections welcome.
Oh, and.... I wanted to correct something I said in my last post.
I said the Japanese eat “lots” of fermented soy, but actually they don’t eat it in large quantities. They eat it as more of a condiment, or a (minor) ingredient in a bigger recipe.
I read somewhere that Japanese average only one ounce of fermented soy per day. And almost -zero- unfermented.
Less than that. My wife and kids like natto, but only eat it occasionally, usually with a raw egg mixed in. It’s not all a daily food. I can’t stand it though, unless it’s as a dried rice topping mixed with other spices.
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