The trouble with soy - part 2

WorldNetDaily.com ^ | December 19, 2006 | Jim Rutz

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Last week's column ("Soy is making kids 'gay'") got a lot of attention – 500 e-mails and three dozen media interview requests – because it blindsided the overwhelming majority of readers.

Perhaps fewer than 10 percent of us are aware that soybeans are a hotly debated topic in medical circles today. Soy products – eaten, drunk, and slipped into thousands of commercial products – are rightly being blamed for a horrendous variety of medical conditions, several of them nearing epidemic status and a few of them irreversible. Pediatricians and other doctors are starting to see a growing parade of patients suffering from serious symptoms that were quite rare just a generation ago.

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Here is Jim Rutz's follow up to his "Soy is making kids gay" article of December 12, 2006. He's citing sources now, and answering common objections like "Why aren't the Chinese all gay?"

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And here is a link to the full article:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53425

[mtbopfuyn]

The highest intake of soy in Japan is among monks, who eat it to turn off sexual desire.

Now, there's an idea for the school lunch program.

[Chewie84]

Yet another reason why I'll never eat tofu or drink soy milk.

[oyez]

Livestock don't seem to have any problem eating soy.

[ClaireSolt]

My father always said that soybeans were brought to US by Henry Ford who used the oil in paint for cars.

[oyez]

I've heard that, too.

Soy beans really saved a lot a cotton farmers when the demand dropped due to man made fiber back in the mid 1950's and later.

[oyez]

I've heard that, too.

Soy beans really saved a lot a cotton farmers when the demand dropped due to man made fiber back in the mid 1950's and later.

[oyez]

What? Soy makes sissies gay?

[SunkenCiv]

Soy Sucks!
circa 2002

Always be on your guard against propaganda - organizations like PeTA prey on your susceptibility. Nutritional science is constantly finding more and more flaws with soya, the so-called miracle food, and many of the scientific studies and reports that contradict these findings are actually funded by animal rights organizations. The Physicians' Committee for Responsible Medicine, a foundation that advocates a strict vegan diet and immediate abolition of all animal-based research, is a subsidiary of PeTA. The PCRM also campaigns violently against health charities such as the March of Dimes, the American Heart Association, and St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital. 5 Ask yourself: do these people care genuinely about human health?

In recent years PeTA's president Ingrid Newkirk, a self-proclaimed "ardent animal lover", has put her foot in her mouth on multiple occasions. Newkirk believes the spread of foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) to the United States would be "good for human health" because it would scare a large portion of the population into becoming vegetarian - however, FMD is not spread through food and only effects hoofed animals. 6 Newkirk openly supports a policy that calls for the immediate euthanasia of any pit bull terrier or pit bull mix at animal shelters. She claims that because the American Pit Bull Terrier has a history of being mistreated, the best thing for the breed's future would be its extinction. 7 Further, PeTA kills over 1,000 cats and dogs a year, animals which it "rescues" from the streets. They are not held in shelters for any length of time, because PeTA does not operate any shelters. Animals who are not placed or returned home immediately are killed. 8 Also, although PeTA avidly campaigns against pet ownership, many members own cats and dogs, which they further abuse by feeding them vegan food. Cats as obligate carnivores and if fed a vegan diet, their health declines rapidly, often resulting in death. Ask yourself: do these people care genuinely about animals?

Margarine, vegetable oil double risk of asthma: study
Yahoo! Australia & NZ News
Thursday 19 July 2001 4:24 PM

In the biggest ever Australian study of asthma risk factors among preschoolers, researchers found a high prevalence of the disease, at around one in five. More research was needed to understand the role of polyunsaturated fats in asthma, but a likely explanation is that the increased levels of omega-6 fatty acids they produce promotes inflammation, the underlying cause of the disease. Other studies have shown "the other side of the coin", that consumption of omega-3 fatty acids such as found in oily fish, is associated with reduced asthma risk. The study, published on Thursday in the international journal Thorax, also shows that having a parent with a history of asthma doubles the risk for a child.

[MHGinTN]

What is all this powerr of hysteria?... If soy were a hormonal interrupter the orient would have disappeared generations ago.