SOY! ..I mean BOO! Dan ________________________________
From: Barbara [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2007 2:23 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CS>Vegetarianism, Indians Thank you sol for that post. I felt like I'm the only one here who knows the dangers of soy. You are so right that it is very hard to avoid it but by using only whole foods and nothing processed we can do it. Soy should not be consumed by any living thing. Barbara Heat and processing alone does not render soy truly safe. It takes fermentation to rid it of some of its anti-nutrients. And in any case I don't think processing removes or inactivates the phytoestrogens, which are problematic as well as the anti-nutrients. There is a big difference in consuming small amounts of fermented soy products, and the extremely heavy consumption we now suffer. Soy is difficult to avoid, and becomes more ubitquitous in processed foods all the time. Soy interferes with mineral metabolism and vitamin metabolism and the phytoestrogens mess up one's endocrine system. It is difficult even to find a real fermented soy sauce these days, even though labels claim otherwise. I am solidly in the camp of the Weston Price folks on soy. sol
