Guest guest Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT, WHAT'S YOUR OPINION ON THE SUBJECT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. ALL I'VE EVER READ IS ALL GOOD ON SOYA. THANKS JAY THIS ARTICLE IS THROUGH THE KIND COURTESY OF MS SUREKHA RAMCHANDANI – ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA... All Males - PLEASE pass this info to all your female friends - It May save their lives! Something to take note of. This is my true story, nothing altered. These are facts, as they relate to my experience, my opinions based on what I have read and felt. I 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't 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 fortify 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 and used it for everything from cereal to smoothies or just to drink for a quick snack. I bought soya muffins, miso soup with tofu, soybeans, soybean sprouts, etc. All the literature in all the health and fitness magazines 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 regulate my menstrual cycle. In addition to this I began to suffer from painful periods. I began to get puffy, it was as though I was losing my muscle tone. I began to suffer from depression and getting hot flushes. 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 I decided to stop taking them. I went on like this for another two years 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 that 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 thought 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 in my right lobe composed of irregular cells and another smaller tumor 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 a toxic by-product of the vegetable oil industry. This was insane, after all, 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 warned her to stay off soya. I referred 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Snopes has an article addressing this one: http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/soya.asp Credibility status is undetermined. Just putting this out here as another source. Serra On 11/21/06, J M <jmfazal wrote: > I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT, WHAT'S YOUR OPINION > ON THE SUBJECT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. ALL I'VE EVER READ IS ALL GOOD ON SOYA. > THANKS JAY > > THIS ARTICLE IS THROUGH THE KIND COURTESY OF MS SUREKHA RAMCHANDANI – ONE > WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA... All Males - PLEASE pass this info to all your > female friends - It May save their lives! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 The only thing that I can add to this, Jay, is the fact that my sister just had a squamous cell tumor removed from the inside of her nose. While doing the necessary blood work, her doctor questioned her about her diet as her potassium levels were sky high. She told him what her diet consisted of but also told him that she drank approximately three 8 oz. glasses of soy milk a day and took a soy supplement as an aid to menopause symptoms. He told her to cut back on her soy to just one small glass, no more than 4 oz per day and no more soy supplements. She had also had problems in the past with fibroid tumors in her breasts during a time when she was enjoying a diet using high amounts of tofu, etc. He wouldn't come out and say it, but hinted that the tumor growth was more rapid and that her potassium level was so high she was a high rish for heart attack. I enjoy soy milk and take a soy supplement for menopause symptoms also, but I've just cut back a little....just in case! Sue D. J M <jmfazal wrote: I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT, WHAT'S YOUR OPINION ON THE SUBJECT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. ALL I'VE EVER READ IS ALL GOOD ON SOYA. THANKS JAY THIS ARTICLE IS THROUGH THE KIND COURTESY OF MS SUREKHA RAMCHANDANI – ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA... All Males - PLEASE pass this info to all your Sponsored Link Get an Online or Campus degree - Associate's, Bachelor's, or Master's -in less than one year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 21, 2006 Report Share Posted November 21, 2006 Hello Jay, I believe that the culprit is genetically modified soy . . . GM processing happened when Soy became so popular with vegetarians and other like-minded health food seekers and the big box food manufacturers saw $$$. I don't have time right now, but google gm soy and see the articles you come up with. There is absolutely no reason for Soy naturally grown and processed to cause this. We were talking on another list about the toxins, heavy metals and chemicals that are pervasive in our drinking water and in the ground . . . So it stands to reason that the greater occurrence of diseases like cancer are also linked to what we eat and how it interacts with what is already in our body organs, blood and tissue as a result of over-chemicalization. Be Well, Marcia Elston http://www.wingedseed.com " Give thanks for a little and you will find a lot. " Hausa Saying from Nigeria > > > On Behalf Of J M > Tuesday, November 21, 2006 7:31 AM > > Re: O.T: soya > > I RECEIVED THIS EMAIL, I DON'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF IT, > WHAT'S YOUR OPINION ON THE SUBJECT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. ALL > I'VE EVER READ IS ALL GOOD ON SOYA. > THANKS JAY > > THIS ARTICLE IS THROUGH THE KIND COURTESY OF MS SUREKHA > RAMCHANDANI - ONE > WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA... All Males - PLEASE pass this > info to all your > female friends - It May save their lives! Something to > take note of. <snipped for bandwidth> Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted November 22, 2006 Report Share Posted November 22, 2006 , Serra <serrathescented wrote: > > Snopes has an article addressing this one: > > http://www.snopes.com/medical/toxins/soya.asp > > Credibility status is undetermined. Just putting this out here as > another source. ------------------------ Snopes does a great service to all of us that get Internet information. However, I do know doctors that recommend their breast cancer patients avoid tofu and soybeans in their diet. Usually there is a tiny grain of information that gets blown into one of these widely circulated myths. With canola it was the fact that it is in the mustard family. A great example of a little (very little) bit of knowledge being a dangerous thing. Joanne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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