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The GMO status of Soy products.

What is Isolated Soy Protien?

How dangerous is it to consume Soy Products?

Are there any Good Soy Products?

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Soybeans are legumes that originated in East Asia, but are now being produced on a large scale in the United States. Soybean can be eaten whole as an immature type called edamame, but dried soybeans must be cooked because they are poisonous when raw. Both have inherently the same problems discussed below.

Soy is used in different foods such as tofu, soy milk and many types of dairy and meat substitutes. It is also used in fermented foods like miso, natto and tempheh.

Estimates are that as much as ninety-five percent of the soy grown in the United States is GMO soy.

Too, the reason that the food industry uses GMO crops is so the crops can be sprayed with the herbicide Roundup, in itself is believed to be associated with adverse effects on health. That is what the seed is modified with, Roundup genes.

Just this one aspect of soy products being terrible for your health should be enough to eliminate the use of all soy products.

Genetically modified foods (GMO) are linked to many health problems because they kill off good bacteria in your gut, known as probiotics and also damage the working of your digestive system.

But if it is not bad enough for you, please read further, it only gets worse.

Whole soybeans are rarely consumed in the United State, and the majority of soy in the diet comes from the refined products that are processed from the soybeans. Most of the U.S. grown soy is used to produce soybean oil, which is extracted using the chemical solvent hexane. Some of the Soybean oil is used to produce Soy Lecithin which is coming to be in a large amount of processed foods.

After extracting the oil, a byproduct called soybean meal, containing about 50% protein is mostly used to feed livestock (but that is another story entirely), but a large portion of the meal is processed further to produce isolated soy protein.

Due to the cheap growing and manufacturing process, Soybean Oil, Soy Lecithin and Isolated Soy Protein find there way in a large amount of processed food and end up being a significant ingredient in most American diets without people even knowing about it.

Soybean oil supplied about 7% of calories in the U.S. diet in the year 1999. This is problematic because soybean oil is high in Omega-6, which leads to inflammation and other health issues.

Like wheat, we have been lied to for years by both the food industries and government agencies. In fact, most all of what we know about soy products is the result of years and years of careful marketing.

What has been the result of that marketing? Well, it has convinced most people to believe the lie that soy is a super-food that could feed the world while at the same time improve the environment.

Probably the main reason you should avoid all soy products are the same reasons why you should avoid other whole grains and legumes, which is that they all loaded with anti-nutrients.

Lectins are gastro-intestinal track damaging anti-nutrients, which mess with the body′s ability to recognize that it has reached satiation, which is referred to as leptin sensitivity (hunger and energy expenditure signals). making your brain think it is still hungry despite already consuming enough calories. This is called Leptin resistance which could lead to insulin resistance and a host of problems know as the metabolic syndrome.

Furthermore, soy has a high level of phytates (anti-nutrient) which binds to minerals like calcium, iron, magnesium and zinc, making these minerals unavailable to you from the ingested soy products regardless of the type of product consumed.

However, the phytates do not stop there, the phytates in soy also bind to other of the same minerals already ingested from other food stuffs and remove them from your bodies ability to use these minerals.

As if lectins and phytates were not enough, soy also includes as another anti-nutrient, protease inhibitor, know also as trypsin inhibitors. These anti-nutrients block the action of enzymes that have the responsibility of digesting certain proteins. Like the lectins and phytates, too much of the protease inhibitor can lead to a host of other problems also.

You may have already heard about lectins, phytates and protease inhibitors that are built into grains and legumes, but are there other facts that make soy a particularly bad source of calories, protein and nutrients.

Soy contains high levels of goitrogens. Goitrogens are compounds that inhibit the thyroid′s ability to utilize iodine correctly and could lead to hypothyroid problems, a conditions so prevalent today that it is considered normal to have thyroid problems.

An under performing thyroid gland slows down your entire metabolism, you feel cold all the time, have low energy and your immune system is weakened drastically. You gain weight, you have a harder time regulating your moods. Too, you demonstrate an inability to concentrate and remember details and the list goes on.

This if further complicated by the universal deficiency of iodine in most all of the American population. Too, soybeans are not the only goitrogenic offender as uncooked cruciferous vegetables have the same effects.

Cooking cruciferous vegetable, including broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage and cauliflower, broccoli, should eliminate most of the goitrogenic effects.

This is not the case with soy products because cooking does not remove the goitrogenic effects in soy products.

Keep in mind that most all vegetable contain some form of toxins, so it is a good plan to eat a large variety instead of sticking only to a few favorites.

Soy contains plant estrogens in the form of isoflavones called phytoestrogen which are estrogen mimicker in the body and effectively raise a person′s estrogen level and lower the testosterone level. These two hormones compete with one another, so more of one effectively means less of the other. There is not a single person who is not effected adversely by these isoflavones.

Soy is higher in phtoestroges than just about any other food source. Any studies that you have heard of that indicate phytoestrogens are good for you are most likely funded by Monsanto and the soy industry.

In fact, independent research has clearly and consistently shown consuming phytoestrogens is dangerous for humans. It has become common knowledge and no one argues that consuming phytoestrogens is a leading cause of breast cancer, endometriosis, uterine fibroids, infertility, and that low libido is unopposed estrogen dominance. Why, then would anyone argue that we should keep consuming a food high in phytoestrogens.

In men, this improper balance from increased estrogen will cause a lower libido, increase fat accumulation in the waist, the condition of gynecomastia (man boobs), and the loss of energy, stamina and virility.

In women, increased estrogen could disrupt the periods, disrupt fertility and cause an increased risk of breast and cervical caner, increase the chance of polycystic ovary syndrome and other hormone imbalance related disorders.

Infants taking the recommended amount of soy formula is consuming a hormone load equivalent to four birth control pills a day. Is it any wonder there has been a rise in precocious puberty with girls starting their periods at 6 and 7 years of age and enlarged breast beginning even earlier.

If we don′t eat soy products with a spoon, how do we eat it?

Soy is the main ingredient in processed soy burgers, processed ice cream, processed milk shakes, processed cheese and an increasing list of thousands of other processed foods.

The soy industry transforms a small yellow soy bean into something resembling food and whether it is a hamburger, milk or ice cream, it is then loaded with high fructose corn syrup to make it palatable. All soy protein products that are made into foods and which look and taste like the real foods they imitate are fake food, just lies used to make money, unhealthy for you and cause many major health problems.

Soy, king of all goitrogenic foods will destroy your thyroid, so, even using one of the food preparation techniques used with grains and other legumes will not remove all the other health harming properties of soy.

Therefore, because soy has phytoestrogens and is genetically modified, it is in fact an inferior source of food and is destroying the planet.