Soy!

The more you know the worse it is!

By Kris Fillat, Founder- GoodOnYa Bar 

(1)   The seed (the “bean”- the part we eat) is toxic!  Let’s just start there. It’s nature’s way of allowing the seed to grow into a plant.

(2)   This is well known in Asia so they soak or ferment the seed to remove most (not all) of the toxins.

(3)   In the US we use unfermented soy, so we are starting with the seed in its natural and toxic state. (Problem #1)

(4)   Ninety five percent of the soy grown in the US is a genetically modified. A GMO seed is created in a lab. They inject bacteria, DNA from all sorts of things, and herbicide into the seed. They do that so when they spray thousands of pounds of pesticides on the crop the seed will be resistant to those chemicals. (Read that one again) Ever heard of Round Up? They call this “Round Up Ready Soy”. (Problem #2) Gross!

(5)   The beans are then soaked in acetone and processed with hexane, a gasoline by-product. Then they are heated to extreme temperatures to remove the oil. The remaining sludge is turned into many products. Lecithin, soy protein isolate, soy crisps, soy flour, soy milk, soy formula. Vit E, make up, lotions, soaps, EVERYTHING.  Soy is a highly processed, industrial product.

(6)   All these highly processed soy by-products are added to 90% of packaged foods!

But wait, it’s a “health” food, right? I mean, we have been told that for years!  It’s an ideal source of protein, lowers cholesterol, protects against cancer and heart disease, reduces menopausal symptoms, and prevents osteoporosis, etc. How did such a ‘healthy food’ emerge from a product that in 1913 was listed in the USDA’s handbook not as a food, but as an industrial product?  Well duh, it’s because it is not a health food. It’s toxic.

Why would these companies tell us it’s a health food?

Eighty percent of the oil used in the US (for food consumption) is soy oil. That’s a lot of oil. Just think of the fries alone. According to lipid specialist and nutritionist Mary Enig, PhD, “The reason there’s so much soy in America is because the soy industry started to plant soy to extract the oil from it and soy oil became a very large industry.” There was a lot of soy oil and with it came a lot of soy protein residue as a left over by-product, and since they couldn’t feed it to the animals, except in small amounts, they had to find another big market which, of course, was human consumption.

What about people in Asia? They eat a lot of soy are really healthy. No they don’t, and yes they are. A study of the history of soy use in Asia shows that it was used by the poor during times of extreme food shortage, and only then the soybeans were carefully prepared (e.g. by lengthy fermentation) to destroy the soy toxins. A survey of 1242 men and 3596 women who participated in an annual health check-up program in Takayama City, Japan found that people consume less than 15g a day. One glass of soy milk is 220g! Combine that with the lotion you rub on your body, your soy milk in your cereal, your soy latte, the soy lecithin in everything, the soy protein in the bars or shakes you eat. Edamame when you go out for sushi and all the other hidden soy in things like bread, pasta sauce, cookies, crackers, ahhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!! 

I know, I know, you are thinking I am some crazy anti-soy lady. Yeah, I am. As with most things, people become interested in it when it affects them directly. I developed an auto immune disorder of the thyroid. Once I started feeling the ill effects of low thyroid function I became intent of fixing them. For all those I love, and those I don’t even know, I would never wish this annoying disorder, which can be deadly, on anyone. I am passionate about helping. Call me crazy!

This info must seem a bit out there, probably similar to the way people felt when they heard the world wasn’t flat. It goes against everything you have been told. And maybe you didn’t even really like it to begin with, you were trying to be healthy ordering tofu and switching to the soy latte. It’s not your fault, you were lied to. You were marketed to. But now it’s time to stand up and vote every single day with your wallet. You can literally make a change in the world, starting with your body!!

As if the info I have above isn’t enough, I haven’t even really told you what the health ramifications are!

Keep reading………………..

Serious Health Danger of soy

• Blocks the uptake of essential vitamins and minerals: Calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, iodine and especially zinc. It’s the phytic acid’s that binds to minerals, proteins and starch, and results in lower absorption of these substances. Vitamin B12 analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body’s requirement for B12. Soy foods increase the body’s requirement for vitamin D. High phytate diets have caused growth problems in children. 
  
  

·         Destroys the Thyroid: It inhibits the uptake of one of the most important minerals needed for growth and metabolism, iodine, which is used by the thyroid gland in the production of thyroid hormones.

·         Estrogen!!!!  Men, Women and Children: Stunted growth, low sex drive and man boobs! Perhaps the most disturbing of soy’s ill effects on health has to do with its phytoestrogens, which can mimic the effects of the female hormone, oestrogen. These phytoestrogens have been found to have adverse effects on various human tissues. Drinking only two glasses of soy milk daily for one month has enough of the chemical to alter a woman’s menstrual cycle. Feeding a baby boy soy formula is the equivalent as giving him 5 birth control pills a day! Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women. Soy phytoestrogens are potent anti-thyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.

• Protein inhibitors: You don’t get the protein listed on the label. None of it. Fragile proteins are denatured during high temperature processing to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein. Soy interferes with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders. In test animals soy containing trypsin inhibitors caused stunted growth.

·         MSG! What??? Free glutamic acid or MSG, a potent neurotoxin, is formed during soy food processing and additional amounts are added to many soy foods. Don’t even get me started on the dangers of MSG. (coming soon)

·         Promotes kidney stones

·         Weakens the immune system

·         Contributes to food allergies and digestive intolerance

·         Soy foods contain high levels of aluminum which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.

·         Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.

I highly suggest you do at least one thing. Start reading your labels on everything. Food and body products. You will see that soy is everywhere.  GMO crops are also contribution to CCD (colony collapse disorder). The bees are dying, and without bees we are up the creek. Soy also causes infertility and low sex drive. And the toxic effects can kill us!

I think soy is trying to take over the human race! 

So it seems pretty dismal and I don’t want to leave you feeling hopeless. I don’t believe in the “everything in moderation” theory. That’s what the people who make NutraSweet tell you.  But with soy some of that might hold true. If you have organic, fermented soy there are even some positive benefits. But again, like they know in Asia, it should be a very small amount, not the main part of your meal. A few edamame beans aren’t going kill you or give you man boobs. But eating a bag of them as a snack a few times a week might lead to you the store looking for the “Bro” (Seinfeld joke). Information is power. Now you have it and are armed to demand more form the companies you support. 

Thanks for listening. I believe it really does matter!  

Kris Fillat

Founder-GoodOnYa