http://www.menshealth.com/nutrition/soys-negative-effects
Soybean products are not in diets of those susceptible to kidney stones.
Life just isn’t safe anymore.
Food fetisists can be disgusting.
/johnny
In general, processed foods also have significant amounts of sodium—another reason to skip processed foods. It would be heart-healthy and kidney-healthy to eliminate all processed foods from one’s diet.
What is canola oil?
Yikes! That’s bad news.
Back in the day ...before junk science the experts were proclaiming that the mass cultivating of soybeans would help save mankind.
It pisses me off to no end that soy has been foisted upon us the way it is. There are plenty of studies showing that soy consumption correlates to lower libido, erectile dysfunction, and specific kidney and liver disorders in men. Men who live vegan lifestyles often suffer all three.
Meanwhile, if you look at the label on pretty much any bottle of salad dressing, the first ingredient is invariably soybean oil. I went back to cooking with coconut oil a few years ago, and Mrs. Rare and I both see and feel a difference. I do my best to avoid soy in every form, including the sauce used in most eastern cooking dishes. That being said, however, I eat salad every day and sometimes like a break from the usual oil and vinegar, esp. if I have steak as a protein (mmm... blue cheese).
Thank you for sharing this article. My wife’s been on the fence, but I think this’ll help push her into my field.
Soybeans are not human food.
(Some fermented soybean products excepted.)
I’d be interested to see them do a similarly structured study comparing the effects butter and lard to soybean and canola oils. Look at crowd pictures of Americans from the first half of the twentieth century. Very few fat people at a time when published recipes simply used the word “fat” for added shortening, and with the exception of Mediterranean cooking that meant butter or lard. And sweetener meant real sugar, not corn syrup and synthetic rubbish. Of course, people back then also were more physically active, walking most places and doing work instead of pointlessly exercising at the gym on treadmills, basically human size mouse cage running wheels.
I wasn’t around when it started, but it seems to me that the entire history of government involvement in food (with a few exceptions) consists of making a problem where none previously existed, “solving” the problem with alternating and often conflicting advice and action that generally caused more harm then good, and, where we are now, eventually coming to the conclusion that the best course of action would have been to have left things as they were before they got involved.
Soy is poison. Not fit for human consumption, from calcium-robbing chemistry to phytoestrogens to this. It’s an industry like HFCS and industry is about selling its product and buying off the FDA. Not blasting free market economics, just suggesting we learn more about what we’re eating.
We almost completely avoid soy products, rapeseed oil, aka “canola,” and most all vegetable oils. It’s been obvious for some time that they’re extremely unhealthy.
Use butter, lard, beef tallow, and maybe a little olive oil. That’s what our forebears, many of whom lived into their eighties, nineties, and even past one hundred, used.
Along with eggs, red meat, fresh ground wheat, and garden vegetables.
Keep heavily processed foods, or foods containing tons of additives, to a bare minimum.
Even if you don’t live longer, you’ll feel a whole lot better. I know I have since we shifted back to this sort of diet a few years back.
I’m using the Gerson method, among other things, for a recent cancer diagnosis. One of the big no-noes is soy. We ate fairly well before: no sugar subs, HFCS, hydrogenated oils, msg, etc. Now we’re super strict. So far my PET and bone scan have come back clean. One month down, seventeen more to go! The first thing my cousin, a pathologist at a major NY cancer center, told me was to eat ALL organic if we weren’t already doing so. We had visited her parents a month before and their fridge and pantry had only organic products.
Here’s the original paper. I wanted to make sure it wasn’t funded by the coconut oil industry. It wasn’t.
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0132672
Tell it to the Japanese - they eat a ton of soy: sauce, natto, tofu, marble dofu....on and on. Doesn’t seem to be shortening their lives.
It’s like a combination issue of Soy with other factors.
Right up your alley!
People were duped ala globull warming data omission style - about dietary fats. Animal based fats are the healthiest for us. The vegetable fats are not natural for us to eat in that form, and many must be chemically processed out of vegetables. Thats how’you get transfats, hydrogenated veg oils.
Naturally’occurring fats in/from animal’products are the best for people.
And as for soy, not good for men, it mimics female hormones, estrogen mimicker. Not a big issue for women.
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This is actually not new.
Its been common knowledge for 20 years.
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bkmk