Soya Bad for Us?
> FYI - THE DANGERS OF SOY FOR LADIES
>
>
> THIS ARTICLE IS THRU 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 w ere 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 famil y suffered
> from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch I saw a specialist who
> diagnosed me with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.
>
> 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 magazineshad 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 ahysterectomy due
> to > cysts and other uterine problems. A few months later another
> acquaintance who had co nsumed 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 webs ites 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 wayin sending this email to
> others. 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.
>
>
> THIS ARTICLE IS THRU 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 w ere 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 famil y suffered
> from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch I saw a specialist who
> diagnosed me with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.
>
> 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 magazineshad 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 ahysterectomy due
> to > cysts and other uterine problems. A few months later another
> acquaintance who had co nsumed 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 webs ites 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 wayin sending this email to
> others. 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.
