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SOYA IS HARMFUL?

Tuesday, April 21, 2009 0 Comments

Do you think soya is harmful to the body?

Read this piece of article from an email, so i decided to share it with everyone.

In 1989, I graduated from high school in Texas and couldn't wait to hit the big college city.
One of the changes I wanted to make was to eat healthier.

Once I moved to health-conscious Austin , Texas , I began to fortify my body with the best
and healthiest foods I could find.

Tofu was the main ingredient in every healthy dish and I bought soya milk almost every day
used it for everything from cereal to smoothies or just to drink for a quick snack. I bought
soya muffins, miso soup with tofu,soybeans, soybean, sprouts, etc. All the literature in all
the health and fitness magazines said that soya protected you against everything from heart
disease to breast cancer. It was the magical isoflavones, the estrogen-like hormones that all
worked to help you stay young and healthy. I looked great - I was working out all the time,
but my menstrual cycle was off. At 20, I started taking birth control pills to regulate my
menstrual cycle.

In addition to this I began to suffer from painful periods. I began to get puffy, it was as though
I was losing my muscle tone. I began to suffer from depression and getting hot flashes. I mistook
all this for PMS since my periods were irregular. By the time I was 25, my periods were so bad,
I couldn't walk. The birth control pills never made them regular or less painful so I decided to
stop taking them.

I went on like this for another two years until I realized my pain wasn't normal. At 27, my
gynecologist found two cysts in my uterus. Both were the size of tennis balls. I went through
surgery to have them removed and thank God they were benign. The gynecologist told me to
go back on birth control pills. I didn't. In 1998, he discovered a lump in my breast. Again, I
went through surgery and again it was benign.

In November 2000 my glands swelled up and my gums became inflamed. Thinking I had a
tooth infection I went to the dentist who told me that teeth were not the problem.

After a dose of antibiotics the swelling still did not go down. At this point I could feel a tiny
nodule on the right side of my neck. I told my mother I had thyroid trouble. She thought I
was being silly. No one in the family suffered from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch I saw
a specialist who diagnosed me with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. After a series of tests he
told me it was cancer. My fiance and I sat stunned. We were not prepared and I was so
scared. We scheduled surgery right away.

The specialist told us that it would only be after the operation that a pathologist would be
able to tell us for sure if it was cancer. They found a tumor at my right lobe composed of
irregular cells and another smaller tumor growing on the left, so the entire thyroid was
removed. They told me that after undergoing radioactive iodine I would be safe and
assured me that I could
live a long life.

After treatment I began to search for the cause of all these problems. I never once thought
it could be all the soya I had consumed for nearly ten years. After all, soya is healthy. I
came upon a web page that linked thyroid problems to soya intake and the conspiracy of
soya marketed as a by-product of the vegetable oil industry. This was insane, after all,
the health and fitness magazines had said nothing about soya being harmful.

I visited a herbalist who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 1985. She informed me
that soya was the culprit. She had a hysterectomy due to cysts and other uterine problems.
A few months later another acquaintance who had consumed soya came down with thyroid
cancer.

A girl in England I met through the Internet in a thyroid cancer forum had just undergone
surgery and she was only 19. What was going on?

Breast cancer is linked to estrogen. What mimics estrogen in the female body, SOYA! But I
never suspected soya because until now I never once found a single article that stated soya
could be dangerous.

Women who took soya prior to thyroid problems will continue to take it after if they are not
aware of what soya actually does, what it contains and how it reacts in the female body. I
think this is the reason that women with thyroid cancer often develop breast cancer later.
My co-worker is big into soya and I see her losing hair and gaining weight despite a walking
workout during her break and after work, and apples and oranges for lunch. She just had
cysts removed from her uterus too. I warned her to stay off soya. I referred her to websites
but until it is on the evening news on all four networks, women will suffer. Since the
thyroidectomy, I do not touch soya, haven't for two years.


Here are some references:

http://www.haelan.co.uk/Wholefood-Soya.shtml

http://www.netlink.de/gen/Zeitung/2000/000813.html

http://www.biotech-info.net/soya.html

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