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Jeni Laura and Persian,

I have not had cow's milk or soy milk in years. I changed to coconut milk and cocnut cream. The greatest difference I noticed was that I do not get headaches any more. We don't even buy headache tablets any more.

 

The difference is so great that when I got a headache recently - I realised how long it was since I had had that pain. From one to three headaches a week a now have difficulty remembering more than one or two a year.

 

References on soy:

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How do you know you are not getting RoundUp Ready Soy? It's every where.

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Soy Allergy

Soy, also referred to as soya, soy bean, or glycine max, is among the main foods that produce reactions worldwide -- mostly, but not exclusively, in infants.

(Start of an article from About.com)

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www.nexusmagazine.com

Tragedy and Hype

The Third International Soy Symposium------

Soy Info Online!Downloads

Phytoestrogen and soy downloads.

FOOD COMMISSION

Fórmulas Infantiles a Base de Soya

MAFF UK

MAFF soy formulas media release

New Zealand Herald Articles: excerpts from the articles by award winning journalist Camille Guy

Soy Under Suspicion, Growth Disorders Reopen Soy Debate, Soybean Campaigner Turns up the Heat

Contact New Zealand Herald or Camille Guy for reprints of full articles.

 

New Zealand Ministry of Health

NZ MOH media release.

The final version of the MOH position paper was toned down; read the draft version which was inadvertently placed on the MOH website.

NZ MOH comments on ANZFA's proposed changes to infant formula regulations.

Price Pottenger Nutrition Foundation

Myths & Truths about Soy

 

Soy Information Network (Dr David Woodhams) newsletters

SIN01, SIN02, SIN03, SIN04.

Swiss Federal Commission on Food

Phyto-oestrogens in baby food based on soya bean protein

Please contact Soy Online Service if there's any other information you'd like to see

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Soy Isoflavine - Pub MedSaturday, 6 July 2002 15:22

 

1: Environ Health Perspect 2002 Jun;110 Suppl 3:349-53 Related Articles, Books, LinkOut

 

Goitrogenic and estrogenic activity of soy isoflavones.

 

Doerge DR.

 

Division of Biochemical Toxicology, National Center for Toxicological Research, Jefferson, Arkansas, USA.

 

Soy is known to produce estrogenic isoflavones. Here, we briefly review the evidence for binding of isoflavones to the estrogen receptor, (italic)in vivo(/italic) estrogenicity and developmental toxicity, and estrogen developmental carcinogenesis in rats. Genistein, the major soy isoflavone, also has a frank estrogenic effect in women. We then focus on evidence from animal and human studies suggesting a link between soy consumption and goiter, an activity independent of estrogenicity. Iodine deficiency greatly increases soy antithyroid effects, whereas iodine supplementation is protective. Thus, soy effects on the thyroid involve the critical relationship between iodine status and thyroid function. In rats consuming genistein-fortified diets, genistein was measured in the thyroid at levels that produced dose-dependent and significant inactivation of rat and human thyroid peroxidase (TPO) (italic)in vitro. (/italic)Furthermore, rat TPO activity was dose-dependently reduced by up to 80%. Although these effects are clear and reproducible, other measures of thyroid function (italic)in vivo(/italic) (serum levels of triiodothyronine, thyroxine, and thyroid-stimulating hormone; thyroid weight; and thyroid histopathology) were all normal. Additional factors appear necessary for soy to cause overt thyroid toxicity. These clearly include iodine deficiency but may also include additional soy components, other defects of hormone synthesis, or additional goitrogenic dietary factors. Although safety testing of natural products, including soy products, is not required, the possibility that widely consumed soy products may cause harm in the human population via either or both estrogenic and goitrogenic activities is of concern. Rigorous, high-quality experimental and human research into soy toxicity is the best way to address these concerns. Similar studies in wildlife populations are also appropriate.

 

PMID: 12060828 [PubMed - in process]

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That's a great point, Persian That sounds like Dr. Mary Enig rhetoric to me. She may be right, but she does seem to have a personal vendetta against soy in particular. She is said to have studied it extensively. But there are many other studies on soy milk that don't trash soy NEARLY so much and they're not funded by or associated with any particular group, thus they don't have a vested interest in the public's perception of soy one way or the other. It makes Enig et al look suspicious. Maybe she's quite reputable, but what I've seen from her so far hasn't impressed me much. She seems more alarmist than anything... But that's just my opinion. :)Peace,--Jeni Lauraherbal remedies , Persian <persian13@i...> wrote:> On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:34:11 +1030, Judith Thamm wrote:> > > > Soy has never been approved for human consumption. It can not be used as an> > animal food because animals do not thrive properly on it. Instead it causes> > early adult stages. Eg in birds they form adult coloured feathers at eg 9> > months of age when they should have juvenile feathers. Causes early onset> > of puberty in girls - 7 to 9 years of age. Causes sexual dysfunction in> > boys and impaired development of genitals. Causes the feminising of men -> > low sperm count, no sperm count. The worst offender is the improver used in> > bread making. This gives anyone a regular small dose of female oestrogen> > every time they eat bread - which causes eg the feminising of men etc. [Ref:> > Soyonline A NZ group]> > > > I would like to see the proof of all this!! I know several vegan families in> Australia that have only ever had soy and none of their kids, now adults> have ANY of these problems.> Persian