investigation

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Dear devotees,

 

Hare Krishna. I just received this information and would like to request the

experts in the field of ISCKON health ministry to see if they can

investigate to the authenticity of this letter since it can affect 50% of

our movement.

 

> FYI... ...Im sure we all have relatives and family who are strict

vegetarian, and soya products are usually part of their everyday diet.

 

> ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA ... INTERESTING FACTS

> Pls pass this info to your female friends........

> Something to take note of. This is my true story, nothing altered. These

are facts, as they relate to m experience, my opinions based on what I have

read and felt. am relating them to warn other young health-conscious women

who are unwittingly harming themselves.

In 1989, I graduated from high school in Texas and couldn'wait to hit the

big college city. One of the changes I wanted to make was to

eat healthier. Once I moved to health-conscious Austin, Texas, I began to

fortif my body with the best and healthiest foods I could find. Tofu was

the main ingredient in every healthy dish and I bought soya milk almost

every day. I

used it for everything from cereal to smoothies or just to drink for a quick

snack. I bought soya muffins, miso soup wth tofu, soyabeans, soyabean

sprouts, etc.

All the literature in all the health and fitness magazi said that soya

protected you against everything from heart disease to breast cancer. It was

the magical isoflavones, the estrogen-like hormones that all worked to help

you stay young and healthy . I looked great, I was working out all the time,

but my menstrual cycle was off.

 

At 20, I started taking birth control pills to regulat menstrual cycle. In

addition to this I began to suffer from painful periods. began to get puffy,

it was as though I was losing my muscle tone. began to suffer from

depression and getting hot flashes. I mistook all this for PMS since my

periods were irregular. By the time I was 25, my periods were so bad I

couldn't walk. The birth control pills never made them regular or less

painful so decided to stop taking them. I went on like this for another two

year until I realized my pain wasn't normal. At 27, my gynecologist found

two cysts in my uterus. Both were the size of tennis balls. I went through

surgery to have them removed and thank God they were benign. The

gynecologist told me to go back on birth control pills. I didn't. In 1998,

he discovered a lump in my breast. Again, I went through surgery and again

it was benign.

 

>In November 2000 my glands swelled up and my gums became inflamed. Thinking

I had a tooth infection i went to the dentist who told me the teeth were not

the problem. After a dose of antibiotics the swelling still did not go down.

>At this point I could feel a tiny nodule on the right side of my neck. I

told my mother I had thyroid trouble. She think I was being silly. No one in

the family suffered from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch I saw a

specialist who diagnosed me with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. After a

series of tests he told me it was cancer. My fiance and I sat stunned. We

were not prepared and I was so scared. We scheduled surgery right away. The

specialist told us that it would only be after the operation that a

pathologist would be able to tell us for sure if it was cancer. They found a

tumor at my right lobe composed of irregular cells and another smaller tumo

growing on the left, so the entire thyroid was removed. They told me that

after undergoing radioactive iodine I would be safe and assured me that I

could live a long life. After treatment I began to search for the cause of

all these problems. I never once thought it could be all the soya I had

consumed for nearly ten years. After all, soya is healthy. I came upon a web

page that linked thyroid problems to soya intake and the conspiracy of soya

marketed as a health food when in fact it is only toxic by-product of the

vegetable oil industry. This was insane, afterall, the health and fitness

magazines had said nothing about soya being harmful.

I visited a herbalist who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 1985. She

informed me that soya was the culprit. She had a hysterectomy due to cysts

and other uterine problems. A few months later another acquaintance who had

consumed soya came down with thyroid cancer. A girl in England I met through

the internet in a thyroid cancer forum had just undergone surgery and she

was only 19. What was going on?Breast cancer is linked to estrogen. What

mimics estrogen in the female body SOYA But I never suspected soya because

until now I never once found a single article that stated soya could be

dangerous. Women who took soya prior to thyroid problems will continue to

take it after if they are not aware

of what soya actually does, what it contains and how it reacts in the female

body. I think

this is the reason that women with thyroid cancer often develop breast

cancer later.

My co-worker is big into soya and I see her losing hair and gaining weight

despite a walking workout during her break and after work, and apples and

oranges for lunch. She just had cysts removed from her

uterus too. I warn her to stay off soya. I refer her to websites but until

it is on

the evening news on all four networks, women will suffer. Since the

thyroidectomy. I do not touch soya, haven't for two years.

Dear readers, please use my story in any way you can. There are so many

young girls who are consuming soya because they think they are taking care

of themselves, and women taking soya because they want to be healthy. It is

so unfair that the information about the dangers of soya isn't more widely

circulated. It is sad. There are many out there who feel this way and it is

a terrible blow when you realize you are not as healthy as you thought and

that the information that you depended on was wrong.

 

Thank you.

 

Your servant,