Digest Number 1217 / Diet & soy milk

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I'm not talking about switching to a high-protein/low-carb " Atkins "

sort of diet, just getting the proportions more in balance. Having

started on a diet just to get back to a healthy weight, I sat down

and did some calculations on what I was eating and discovered I'm

getting way too little protein. Government guidelines (and various

other healthy eating guidelines) suggest getting about 15% of your

energy intake from protein; I reckon I was maybe getting about half

of that at most and so was having a disproportionate amount of fat

and carbs in my diet.

 

Thanks for the advice on the soy milk - I'm certainly not going to

continue with anything that gives me that sort of reaction. What I

was hoping though was that if I could discover the cause, I would

then have a better idea about what sort of things I should avoid and

whether there were any particular soy brands that were OK, or if

there was a cooking or filtering process I could use to render the

products " safe " . This would be helpful, not only in terms of

switching to a lower carb/higher protein food source but also because

of the wide prevalence of soy dairy products.

 

Cheers,

 

 

Matthew

 

, vclarke <interveg wrote:

>

> In message <1178620070.676.95252.m37 >,

> writes

>

> > 1. Strange soy intolerance - can you help?

> >

> > I've been a vegan for 7 years now. I discovered early on that

I had

> > some sort of intolerance to soy " dairy " products, but not to

other

> > forms of soy. The intolerance takes the form of a tingling of

the

> > tongue and back of the throat ranging from barely noticeable

to

> > almost causing me to choke.

> >

> > Up to now, this hasn't caused me a major headache as I've just

used

> > rice milk instead of soy, however I'm currently trying to

rebalance

> > my diet to decrease carbohydrates and increase protein. Being

able

> > to drink soy milk instead of rice milk would help with this.

> >

> > So has anyone else had this problem or have any idea of what's

> > causing it? If so, do you have any advice for (UK) brands of

soy

> > milk that might be OK?

>

> I've experienced this just once in about 15 years when I had a kiwi

> (soya)milkshake in Spain. Not only did my mouth and throat feel

tight

> and prickly but my hands swelled up for about an hour afterwards as

> well. At the time I attributed it to the kiwi fruit (which had

never

> bothered me before either, but I thought maybe the skin had been

blended

> in and the whiskers might be causing it). I was tempted to try

chewing

> on some kiwi skin to find out, but it didn't seem a very wise idea!

>

> Whatever the cause, the tingling etc sounds like a pretty standard

> mildly allergic reaction and best not encouraged to get worse. I'm

not

> sure why you want to rebalance your diet in the way you describe - I

> have never heard of any particular benefits to be had from such a

> manoeuvre - but it might be advisable not to tempt fate by

increasing

> your intake of soya milk if it bothers you in that way.

>

> Good wishes,

>

> Vanessa

>