Post by g.b.b on Aug 8, 2005 10:00:51 GMT 8
i received this article in my email. i drink soya a lot when im working out together with my body building supplement. can you give me a comment if you agree on this. for me this is stupid.
ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA . INTERESTING FACTS
> >
> >Pls pass this info to your female friends........
> >Something to take note of.
> >
> >This is my true story, nothing altered. These are facts, as they
relate
> to my experience, my opinions based on what I have read and
> >felt. Am relating them to warn other young health-conscious women
> who are unwittingly harming themselves.
> >
> >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 fort! ify 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. I used it for everything
> >from cereal to smoothie! s or just to drink for a quick snack. I
> bought soya muffins, miso soup wth tofu, soyabeans, soyabean
> >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 Iooked 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 perio! ds.
> >began to get puffy, it was as though I was losing my m uscle tone.
> 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 be! came 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 think 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 health food when in
> >fact it is only a toxic by-product of the vegetable oil industry.
> This was insane, afterall, 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 late r.
> >
! > >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 warn her to stay off soya. I refer 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.
> >
> >Dear readers, please use my story in any way you can. There are so
> many young girls who are consuming soya because they
> >think they are taking care of themselves, and women taking soya
> because they want to be healthy. It is so unfair that the
> >information about the dangers of soya isn't more widely circulated.
> It is sad. There are many out there w! ho feel this way and it
> >is a terrible blow when you realize you are not as healthy as you
> thought and that the information that you depended on was wrong.
ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA . INTERESTING FACTS
> >
> >Pls pass this info to your female friends........
> >Something to take note of.
> >
> >This is my true story, nothing altered. These are facts, as they
relate
> to my experience, my opinions based on what I have read and
> >felt. Am relating them to warn other young health-conscious women
> who are unwittingly harming themselves.
> >
> >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 fort! ify 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. I used it for everything
> >from cereal to smoothie! s or just to drink for a quick snack. I
> bought soya muffins, miso soup wth tofu, soyabeans, soyabean
> >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 Iooked 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 perio! ds.
> >began to get puffy, it was as though I was losing my m uscle tone.
> 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 be! came 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 think 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 health food when in
> >fact it is only a toxic by-product of the vegetable oil industry.
> This was insane, afterall, 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 late r.
> >
! > >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 warn her to stay off soya. I refer 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.
> >
> >Dear readers, please use my story in any way you can. There are so
> many young girls who are consuming soya because they
> >think they are taking care of themselves, and women taking soya
> because they want to be healthy. It is so unfair that the
> >information about the dangers of soya isn't more widely circulated.
> It is sad. There are many out there w! ho feel this way and it
> >is a terrible blow when you realize you are not as healthy as you
> thought and that the information that you depended on was wrong.