More on the dangers of Soy
Some of you may still be shaking your heads in disbelief at last week’s article by Dr. Wong. Well here is a more extensive article by Dr. Tim O’Shea. If this article does not convince you, next week I will be posting what Dr. Mercola has to say. SOY IS BAD FOR OUR HEALTH. Bad for our fertility. Real science versus junk science.
| THE MAGIC BEAN? SOY-TAINLY NOT!
- Tim O’Shea In This Chapter: Conventional Wisdom - what everybody thinks. As we saw in The Doors of Perception , in today’s world of controlled information, people think what they’re told to think - over and over and over and over. Mass opinion on most topics is a commodity that is bought and paid for. We don’t even know that we don’t know. Abstract? OK. Soy. Conventional wisdom says that soy is a natural protein substitute which can supply our complete protein requirements without the nasty drawbacks of contaminated, high food chain, cholesterol-laden animal protein. Championed by vegetarians, sanctified by Orientals, venerated by health food stores, spotlighted by Madison Avenue with just a hint of Woodstock, soy now rules as the “perfect protein.” Same with margarine. We’re programmed to think of cholesterol as bad and the cause of heart disease, etc., so that we’re afraid to eat butter. Then we’re programmed to see margarine as our savior because it’s made from “pure cholesterol-free vegetable oil,” the vegetable being soybeans. OK, great. And then we have millions of tons of soybean oil separated from the bean, which leaves as a by-product a mountain of what? Right - soy protein. Now, instead of throwing it out or just feeding it to the pigs, Madison Avenue steps in. What if we could program people to think that this artificial food waste was actually a complete food in itself, and even better, make them think it was a superior form of natural, complete protein? Wow! And that’s just what happened. The ads are everywhere: “Soy is Fantastic!” Not just dairy products, like soy milk, soy butter, soy cheese. No, now we have soy yoghurt, soy ice cream, soy flour, soy baby formula, soy sloppy joes, soy tacos, soy chili, soy cereals, soy falafel, soyburgers, etc. (www.fantasticfoods.com) What’s next? Soy Pepsi? Hopping on the flailing Vegetarian bandwagon, soy is being hawked as a complete meat substitute, as well as a dairy substitute. This is a marketing masterpiece. Who do you think is directing the show? Nutritionists? Dieticians? Doctors? Try MBAs and CEOs of the world’s top chemical cartels, together with the country’s top ad and marketing people. What do you think their focus is? Your health? Your child’s well-being? Will they blatantly deceive you, compromise your children’s heath, whip up endless “scientific” reports from their junk science research masters, pervade the popular press with unsupportable claims about soy’s health value and tasty ‘healthful’ recipes? Pop quiz: did they go to business school to learn how to improve our nation’s health? Doesn’t it seem odd how we all became so wise about soy in just a few years? Subconsciously we congratulate ourselves on having the wit to have discovered this perfect food that was right under our noses the whole time. That’s not even mentioning genetically modified hydrogenated soybean oil, now present in over 60% of food items on the shelves of American supermarkets. It’s the main ingredient in most commercial pies, cakes, ice cream, chocolate candy, donuts, pastries, cookies, and salad dressings, and a hidden ingredient in practically everything else. It has no food value, cannot be well digested, and contains many contaminants. How did all this happen in just a few years, and how come most of us don’t know a thing about it? A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE Let’s back up a little. The slightest bit of collateral research shows that the prom queen is pregnant. Even at the outset, there are a lot of problems with soy: - Soy is not a complete protein Let’s just look at these simple points one at a time. |
