>>>>It's mainly because of all the estrogens (read that as soy products) that boys are eating (sometimes right out of the womb).
OMG! I read this and thought, what on earth is this numberonepal talking about?!
I never read up on soy before because I don't use soy products.
So I looked this up.
Soy: Is it Healthy or is it Harmful?
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
with Rachael Droege
In recent years soy has emerged as a ‘near perfect’ food, with supporters claiming it can provide an ideal source of protein, lower cholesterol, protect against cancer and heart disease, reduce menopause symptoms, and prevent osteoporosis, among other things. But how did such a ‘perfect’ food emerge from a product that in 1913 was listed in the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) handbook not as a food but as an industrial product?
According to lipid specialist and nutritionist Mary Enig, PhD, "The reason there’s so much soy in America is because they [the soy industry] started to plant soy to extract the oil from it and soy oil became a very large industry. Once they had as much oil as they did in the food supply they had a lot of soy protein residue left over, and since they can’t feed it to animals, except in small amounts, they had to find another market."
And another market was what they found. To put it simply, after multi-million dollar figures spent on advertising and intense lobbying to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), about 74 percent of U.S. consumers now believe soy products are healthy.
If you’re thinking the health claims surrounding soy sound too good to be true you just may be right. Soy has become another misunderstood food category, to be added to the ranks of coconut oil, saturated fats and vegetable oils. The two former have gained a negative reputation where a good one actually applies, but vegetable oil, along with soy, have emerged with sparkling reputations that cover up the truth.
More:
http://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/21/soy.htm
Remember what we were speculating on one of our hijacked additive threads?
I saw this comment that I thought was odd in post 203.
Well guess what? It seems that odd comment in 203 was the missing piece to the puzzle we wondered about with food allergies!
Look at this:
http://www.mercola.com/2004/jan/21/soy.htm
Soy: Is it Healthy or is it Harmful?
(snip, snip, snip, etc)
....studies have found that soy products may:
(snip, snip, snip)
- Cause severe, potentially fatal food allergies
http://www.mercola.com/1999/archive/soy_can_cause_allergic_reaction.htm
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