Posted on 08/30/2010 5:44:19 PM PDT by CutePuppy
Soy does not lower cholesterol, does not prevent heart disease, and does not deserve an FDA-approved soy heart-health claim. This amazing announcement comes from none other than the American Heart Association (AHA) published in the Jan. 17, 2006, issue of its journal Circulation.
Athletes at Risk
Not long before this announcement, University of Colorado researchers reported in the January issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation that soy worsens cardiomyopathy, a form of heart disease that is very much on the rise, afflicting 1 in 500 Americans.
Cardiomyopathy, defined as a weakening of the heart muscle or change in structure of the heart, is the leading cause of death among young athletes, a group that may consume a lot of soy in the form of protein powders and energy bars.
Women at Risk
Now investigators have found more damning evidence against soy. High levels of soy isoflavones — plant estrogens found in products like soymilk and soy nuts as well as many menopausal supplements — put women at risk for cardiovascular disease.
The study, reported in the May 2007 issue of Journal of Women’s Health, began when Carl J. Pepine, M.D., chief of cardiology at the University of Florida College of Medicine, in Gainesville, along with 10 other researchers from his own and five other medical institutions, aimed to find out whether women who have high concentrations of isoflavones in their blood had better vascular health.
Subjects were participants in the Women’s Ischemia Syndrome Evaluation (WISE) who had reported chest pain and were thus suspected to suffer from myocardial ischemia (defined as pathological loss of or reduction in blood flow, ischemia, to a part of the muscular tissue of the heart, the myocardium).
More than 900 women have participated in the WISE project, which was founded a decade ago by the National Institutes of Health to study whether heart disease develops differently in women than in men. Because heart disease is more likely to occur after menopause, scientists have blamed waning estrogen levels.
Dr. Pepine and his colleagues had expected that women with high levels of genistein (the primary isoflavone found in soybeans) would show improved vascular health but found the opposite to be true.
Speaking to a reporter for Science News, Dr. Pepine said: “There are a lot of women taking these things (isoflavone-rich products), without any direct evidence that they’re beneficial.” He warned that there is a “small but growing body of research suggesting there could be a downside to overindulging in them.”
Industry Response
Industry response to mounting evidence for soy’s lack of benefit has been entirely predictable: endless references to soy being both low in saturated fat and free of cholesterol (twin evils that “everyone knows” cause heart disease) combined with chipper reports of hot new evidence “proving” that soy is the best thing for the heart since love.
Although some of this hype has made it into the news — particularly in magazines where soy foods and soymilk are heavily advertised — a shift has definitely taken place. Health magazines are increasingly leaving soy off lists of healthy foods. These days, they aren’t yet reporting risks from soy, but they aren’t singing its praises either.
Soy-Book Ban
The July-August 2007 issue of Energy Times featured an “Omnivore versus Vegan” debate designed to help readers decide whether Mother Nature designed us as to eat animal products or whether we should consider veganism “our next big evolutionary leap.”
Speaking for the vegans was Hope Ferdowsian, M.D., of the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine. Representing the omnivores was WAPF (Weston A. Price Foundation) board member Kaayla T. Daniel, Ph.D., who was invited to participate only on the grounds that she not speak out about soy.
Apparently the advertisers were so nervous about the subject that they didn’t even permit her to be credited as author of “The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America’s Favorite Health Food.”
Whereas health magazines have often chosen to eliminate the book’s informative subtitle, Energy Times excised all mention of the book. In addition to the usual array of soy advertisements, the back inside cover of the magazine featured an advertisement in the guise of a footnoted article.
Its title? “The Good News About Soy Continues.” Among other claims was the one that soy is very heart healthy.
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Kaayla T. Daniel is a certified clinical nutritionist, author, and speaker.
Source: http://Westonaprice.org/soy-alert/968-not-so-soy-healthy-for-the-heart.html
Why do you drink that? (I’m interested.)
HA.....you don’t know how right you are!
Here is the beginning of a series of articles on the hazards of soy:
http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=53327
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:-) Couldn't argue with that.
While tofu, and soy milk are bad for you, I think that traditional fermented soy like miso is probably OK.
“And it’s un-manly.”
You mean it’s Obama friendly?
While tofu, and soy milk are bad for you, I think that traditional fermented soy like miso is probably OK.
You have to consider the whole diet (for instance, a lot of seafood / fish - sources of fish oil and Vitamin D3) and, actually soy (as in tofu, rather than use of soy sauce etc.) is not a large part of Asian diet or cuisine, it’s been popularized and more faddish in the western world when vegetarianism became fashionable.
Miso should be fine. It’s processed differently and used sparingly in pastes and soup.
> “Now there is proof!”
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There has been for a long time.
This country has a dark underbelly that worships the death culture, and wishes to fulfil UN Agenda 21 by killing off 2/3 of the population, and things like soy, statin drugs, and low fat diets are a hugh part of it.
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Miso and Natto are fermented, and are good food.
“Why do you drink that? (I’m interested.)”
It’s supposed to make your system more alkaline and increase energy. Look it up on Google.
Are your teeth dissolving?
I looked up obama on Google and they told me he is the savior of the world.
Read labels it is in mixes and dozens of products we eat every day .. it is a “healthy” filler
I have read that Asians have a genetic ability to digest soy not found in other populations.That could explain that generations of asians have eaten large amts without difficulity
Ping to another soy article.
> “I have read that Asians have a genetic ability to digest soy not found in other populations.That could explain that generations of asians have eaten large amts without difficulity”
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Asians do not eat much non-fermented soy.
Only Americans are stupid enough to consume such low grade animal fodder.
Because "everybody knows" that "soy is good for you"... Just like "everybody knows" the "dangers of man-made global warming"... That DDT is very harmful to people and must be banned... and so on and so on...
"Conventional wisdom" formed by incessant repetition in the media taking place instead of hard science and common sense... Fortunately it seems to start slowly going in reverse as people start distrusting the agenda of politicians and the media more and more.
Opps thats right..my Korean daughter in law did tell me that
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