Wednesday, October 18, 2006
soya or not? decide for yourself
Its reputation as an anti-cancer, cholesterol-lowering, osteoporosis-fighting, low-fat all round good egg of a product is based on bad science and superlative marketing by the powerful soya industry. soya is not the 21st century superfood that packs the ability to reduce cancer or wadeva shit...
It contains high quantities of various toxic chemicals, which cannot be fully destroyed even by the long cooking process. These are: phytates, which block the body's uptake of minerals; enzyme inhibitors, which hinder protein digestion; and haemaggluttin, which causes red blood cells to clump together and inhibits oxygen take-up and growth. Most controversially of all, soya contains high levels of the phytoestrogens (also known as isoflavones) genistein and daidzein, which mimic and sometimes block the hormone oestrogen.
so they say that it is because the jap huge intake of soya that protectes them from all sorts of health problems.. how are we goin going to account for that?
actually it is all again marketing strategies to let the world c how beneficial is soya but it fact all the reports are just exaggerations. a jap dont take that mauch soya a day and what keeps them healthy is the fact that their diet contains mainly of fish and fresh veg and little of all those junk food and carcinogenic stuff that most ppl around the world eat. in addition the fact that they have low rates of breast, uterus, colon and prostate cancers is Not because they eat soya. its is just that the asians' body is in such a way that they have better immunity to such things bud more prone to thyroid and digestive cancers, including cancer of the stomach, pancreas, liver and oesophagus.
other info
A newborn baby's sole food is the milk it drinks: a soya-fed baby receives the equivalent of five birth control pills' worth of oestrogen every day.
Boys risk retarded physical maturation, while girls risk early puberty (1 per cent of girls now show signs of puberty, such as breast development or pubic hair, before the age of three) and fertility. Researchers have also suggested that diabetes, changes in the central nervous system, extreme emotional behaviour, asthma, immune system problems, pituitary insufficiency and IBS may be caused by high phytoestrogen intake in early life.
men who had eaten two or more servings of tofu a week during mid-life not only had 'accelerated brain ageing', and more than twice the incidence of Alzheimer's and dementia, but also looked five years older than those men who didn't.
soya does not help prevent oestoporsis as it contains some acidic chemicls that blocks up the digestive tract and preven uotake of important nutrients such as calcium which helps to build strong bones. i.e it actually increses the risk of havin oestoporsis
ok after all this shit it is up to u to judge and weigh. it doesn mean we should boycott mr bean from now on bud i think moderation is always the best
Zirui say bye at 8:25 PM.
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