The Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food (edit title/settings)

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• Kunitz
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• “Printed with soy ink, an appropriate use of soy.”

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• While the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a heart health claim for soy protein, the agency also lists soy in its “Poisonous Plant Database.” A search of the word “soy” in the database reveals 256 references, including studies that warn about goiter, growth problems, amino acid deficiencies, mineral malabsorption, endocrine disruption and carcinogenesis.

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• soybeans were perceived as a suitable food for humans only after the discovery of processing methods that could largely deactivate an antinutrient found in soybeans known as the trypsin inhibitor.

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• The industry also makes a profit from other waste products, most notably soy lecithin (widely used in the food processing industry as an emulsifier), protease inhibitors (digestive distressers sold as cancer preventatives), and isoflavones (plant estrogens promoted as “safe” hormone therapy, cholesterol reducers, and cancer cures).

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• All soybeans contain antinutritional factors (known as antinutrients) and toxins.

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• Contrary to popular belief, the worst of these are not animal fats or tropical oils, but the refined and processed polyunsaturates that come from plants.4, 5 Some of the most dangerous of these come from the soybean.

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• The discovery of fermentation allowed the Chinese to tame the soybeans’ undesirable, rowdier elements and domesticate them into a well-mannered food.

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• Soy went from nitrogen fixer to fermented food no earlier than about 2500 years ago.5, 6 Until then, the Chinese considered soybeans inedible.

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• Humans who boast beautiful, moist skin and thick, shiny hair invariably live on sulfur-rich diets. Sulfur has been nicknamed the “beauty mineral” for it provides the cross links that make the elastin and collagen of our skin strong, flexible and youthful.

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• Free radicals not only turn oils rancid, but turn us rancid. Eating rancid oils sets off chain reactions in our bodies that destroy cells, damage DNA, promote disease and accelerate aging. 33

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• Hydrolyzed vegetable protein—usually a synonym for hydrolyzed soy protein—is a brown powdery substance used widely by the food industry as a flavoring additive.

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• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Diets & Weight Loss › Special Conditions › Whole Foods
• Books › Science › Agricultural Sciences › Food Science
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Diets & Weight Loss › Food Counters
• Books › Health, Mind & Body › Nutrition