Soy should be outlawed

From: Dr. William Campbell Douglass II, MD
Dr. Douglass' Real Health Breakthroughs (203-699-4420)
http://www.realhealthnews.com/

If you've been a reader of mine for any length of time at all, you no doubt know how I feel about soy. If you don't, here's a brief summary of it: soy should be outlawed.

Despite its status as darling of the vegetarian "meat martyrs," soy is NOT a health food. In fact, it's neither healthy nor is it food, if your definition of that word includes some measure of actual nourishment. And it isn't merely worthless as a food, it's downright harmful.

Hundreds of studies have linked soy proteins and derivatives to:

• Heart disease
• Cancer, especially of the breast
• Allergies and reduced immunity
• Thyroid dysfunction
• Malnutrition and digestive problems
• Nutrient deficiencies, including calcium (vital for the prevention of osteoporosis)
• Reproductive disorders
• Cognitive and mental decline
• and more

And these are just the NATURAL side effects of soy foodstuffs. I shudder to think of how many other ills we're risking by ingesting the residues of the acid and alkaline baths, petroleum solvents, and God knows how many other hazardous chemicals involved in the manufacture of some of the most common soy variants...

These facts notwithstanding, soy byproducts and proteins have found their way into just about everything - usually in the place of truly healthy animal-based fats: Milk and milk substitutes, cheeses, yogurts, desserts, breakfast foods, and even many burger patties have some degree of soy content nowadays.

In fact, it's estimated that 60% of the refined foods on store shelves and sold in fast-food joints have some kind of harmful soy protein in them. And if those madcaps over at the Food and Drug Administration have it their way, the amount of soy Americans are consuming will likely double in the very near future.

Why? Because they're about to allow the manufacturers of every Twinkie, breakfast cereal, veggie burger, energy bar, milk substitute, and every other doggone thing under the sun with harmful soy protein or byproduct in it to claim that it PREVENTS CANCER.

Yep, you read that right.

Despite the findings of stacks of bona-fide research, the FDA is about to buckle yet again to the Big Food business (like it did with that Food Pyramid farce) and let them claim their soy- and sugar-saturated junk as the key to dodging cancer.

Absurd as the notion is, the FDA is about to give a big rubber stamp to refined-food makers that says "Prevents Cancer" on it. This, despite the fact that many toxicology texts list the plant estrogens found in soy protein products as CARCINOGENS.

How can this happen, you ask? As usual, it's all about money. This move will mean billions in the pockets of American food makers, and who knows how many needless corpses in American morgues... What really kills me is that the FDA doesn't think we're smart enough to see how shamelessly profit-driven this shenanigan is.

Think about it: There are lots of safe, natural substances out there that REALLY DO prevent cancer. But does the FDA allow makers of these things to make that claim? Of course not. The supplement and natural foods industries represent an insignificant source of income for the government next to the food business. Besides, people might stop taking those expensive drugs if they knew about the benefits of vitamins, herbs, minerals, and truly healthy foods - that would mean less money in the Feds' pockets in taxes and drug application and approval fees. But since the food industry will flood the government with corporate tax revenues generated by the sale of soy-inclusive products, they get to claim these foods prevent cancer.

You see, it doesn't matter if it's true, as long as it's truly profitable. As you know, I don't often try to rally my readers to action. With a couple of notable exceptions in the past, I prefer to inform and expose, then let folks decide for themselves whether or not to get involved. But this time, I'm urging anyone who cares about not only their health, but their rights to unbiased government oversight of big business to take action now - because the clock is ticking... The FDA must hear from Americans in sufficient numbers to make them think twice about giving the food industry carte blanche to bill their junk foods as the "magic bullet" for cancer.

[While I don't agree with Dr. Douglass about consuming animal protein, my research into soy is in full agreement with his statements. See http://chidiet.com/problemswithsoy.htm for research links. - Jim]

Comments

[Jim Carey]

You are completely right, Amita!

[Amita Amladi]

Whether or not soy is dangerous, or as dangerous as you & Dr. Douglass claim (I'm not saying that it is or it isn't - I just have to do more reading into this before I can decide)

But regardless of whether soy is dangerous or not, I TOTALLY disagree with the idea of OUTLAWING IT! Because then, where would it end??

For example, in another article by Dr. Douglass, he champions the consuming of raw milk & raw milk products.

After reading his article, and doing my own research, I found that, yes, raw milk, and raw milk dairy products are tastier, healthier, and in most cases, safer than factory-farmed pasteurized milk.

So when I went to Paris for 10 weeks at the end of August, I started drinking raw milk and having raw milk dairy products & AMAZINGLY certain chronic health symptoms that I've been suffering with for years, miraculously disappeared! I LOVED the taste of raw milk and would go through almost a half dozen liters a week!

However, after 10 weeks I had to return to Michigan, where the sale of raw milk is ILLEGAL (aka - OUTLAWED) and the only way to have access to fresh, pure, unprocessed raw milk from clean, pasture-fed cows, is to join a "cow-share", pay the membership fee, as well as a HIGH BLACK-MARKET price per gallon for the milk, and then drive to some secret, remote & distant location to pick up the milk each week!

Since I can't yet drive, nor afford to pay the HIGH BLACK-MARKET price per gallon for the milk, for now, I am stuck with pasteurized milk.

However, rather than buying the ultra-pasteurized milk from the supermarkets/grocery stores who pasteurize their milk to 190 - 200 degrees, instead we subscribe to the Oberweis Dairy service who don't use hormones/antibiotics, and only pasteurize to 173 degrees (just a bit above the federal minimum requirement of 163 degrees) and provide weekly home delivery in reusable GLASS milk bottles - like in the olden days!

But as good as Oberweis Dairy is, I would MUCH RATHER have raw milk. Not only for the taste, but also the chronic health symptoms I've suffered with for years, and which disappeared in Paris while drinking raw milk, ended up coming back within A DAY OR TWO of my return to the US and drinking pasteurized milk again! :(

I mean on one hand you say to outlaw soy, but then you turn around and say that people should have free access to raw milk & raw milk products. You can't have it both ways!

Which is EXACTLY why I am AGAINST the OUTLAWING of ANY food, drink, drug, or adult consensual act (prostitution, gambling, drug use, etc.)

If any food, drink or drug is considered dangerous or risky, then slap a warning label on it, and give people the FREEDOM to decide for themselves whether or not to take that chance!