Consumer Soy Alert! What You Need to Know
Question: Is soy protein okay in my meal replacement shake?
Answer: Major clinical studies are being published each week linking soy to a wide range of ailments, many listed below. This is why you will not find a soy product in our TOP 10 recommended products. Our stance is simple — until we know more about the risk, “why risk it?” Consumers fortunately have many non-soy products to choose from.
Dr. Oz Warns Against Soy and Offers his Recommendation
Consumer Soy Alert! Soy has been linked to… breast cancer, brain damage, infant abnormalities, thyroid disorders, kidney stones, immune system impairment, severe potentially fatal food allergies, impaired fertility, danger during pregnancy and nursing… SEE FULL REVIEW[1]
Entourage Star Jeremy Piven Says Soy Gave Him “Man Boobs”
Like most people, we’re huge fans of the hit television series Entourage. We especially love it’s all-star cast including Jeremy Piven. However, have you read about the negative hormonal effects Piven says he experienced due to drinking soy milk?
“I was the guy that dabbled in soy milk, but now I’ve found out soy milk has enough estrogen for me to grow breasts; I had to put the soy milk down,” Piven explained to BANG International Media. Read the full story here.
Beware, Experts Agree the Soy Industry is Promoting a Scam!
Dr. Mercola’s Review…
Is Soy Killing You? The Dangers of Soy are Very Real [1]
It should be a crime to promote soy foods as health foods when the dangers of soy and soy derivatives are well known. These dangers have been extensively documented in the scientific literature, which makes it hard to believe that so many in the health and fitness communities still promote soy products as ultra-healthy foods.
You might wish to think that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) probably just doesn’t know about the toxic effects of soybeans. You might think that the food industry and the FDA must have simply been misinformed about the supposed benefits and dangers of soy. Unfortunately, this was not the case.
See for yourself! Search the database of the FDA’s Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition Go to the Poisonous Plant Database [2] and search on ‘soybean’. Seeing is believing, especially when this information is found in an official United States Government website. You’ll find page after page of studies on soy, many emphasizing the toxic properties of soybeans. While it’s not easy to get access to the actual studies, it is cause for concern that the FDA has this very negative information and knowingly chooses to ignore it.
It’s appalling to think of the human health conditions that could be avoided if the FDA were more concerned and if it actually listened to their scientific advisors.
The Weston Price Foundation has a list of studies carried out from 1971 to 2003 showing the adverse effects of dietary soy. To give you an idea of how condemning these studies are, here are just a few summaries. There are over 50 more!
| 1986 Fort P and others. Breast feeding and insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus in children. J Am Coll Nutr 1986;5(5):439-441. Twice as many soy-fed children developed diabetes as those in a control group that was breast fed or received milk-based formula. It was based on this study that the American Academy of Pediatrics took a position of opposition to the use of soy infant formula. This objection was later dropped after the AAP received substantial grants from the Infant Formula Council. |
| 1994 Hawkins NM and others. Potential aluminium toxicity in infants fed special infant formula. J Pediatr Gastroenterol Nutr 1994;19(4):377-81 (1994). Researchers found aluminum concentrations of 534 micrograms/L in soy formula, as compared to 9.2 micrograms/L in breast milk. The authors concluded that infants may be at risk from aluminium toxicity when consuming formula containing more than 300 micrograms/L. |
| 1999 Sheehan DM and Doerge DR, Letter to Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) February 18, 1999. A strong letter of protest from two government researchers at the National Center for Toxicological Research urging that soy protein carry a warning label rather than a health claim. |
| 1999 White L. Association of High Midlife Tofu Consumption with Accelerated Brain Aging. Plenary Session #8: Cognitive Function, The Third International Soy Symposium, Program, November 1999, page 26. An ongoing study of Japanese Americans living in Hawaii found a significant statistical relationship between two or more servings of tofu per week and “accelerated brain aging.” Those participants who consumed tofu in mid life had lower cognitive function in late life and a greater incidence of Alzheimer’s and dementia. |
| 2001 Strom BL and others. Exposure to soy-based formula in infancy and endocrinological and reproductive outcomes in young adulthood. JAMA 2001 Nov 21;286(19):2402-3. Although reported in the media as a vindication of soy infant formula, the study actually found that soy-fed infants had more reproductive problems and more asthma as adults. |
[1] http://www.naturalhealthstrategies.com/dangers-of-soy.html
[2] http://google2.fda.gov/search?q=soy+poisonous+plant+database&spell=1&client=FDAgov&lr=&proxystylesheet=FDAgov&output=xml_no_dtd&ie=UTF-8&site=FDAgov&access=p
[3] Weston Price Foundation
[1] http://healthyfamiliesforgod.com/2011/12/could-visalus-other-soy-products-actually-be-harming-your-health/ reference Healthy Families Organization
itake almased synergistic diet drink. i am very concerned about the buzz about soy. almased points out that there product has been on the market 30+ years. the product is made in germany and germany has strict codes of how the products they use are raised.also it is non-gmo and the products are fermented. they have had diabetics and breast cancer patients successfully use this product. also could you comment on the japanrsr,who are in the “blue zone” using so much soy and metagenics,who is a leader in the “health field” using soy in their powder drinks? i am so glad i found your site i have so many ?’s.thank you
Being a vegetarian, I eat soy products as meat substitutes. I love it because I can make tacos, chicken dishes ect… I had no idea it was bad until I read this article. What can I eat that is safe to make vegetarian dishes that call for meat??