- (Note - We have long been opposed to soy products for
a number of reasons, most of which are detailed in these links below.
We recommend Rice Dream which comes in three flavors and is made with an
excellent water source which contains no fluoride among other good attributes.
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- Hi Jeff
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- I noticed your link to an article on soy products (Milk
Without the Moo A Soy Product Gets A Major Makeover), and thought I would
send this along to balance the picture. I was certainly a believer in soy
until I started learning a bit...
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- THE OTHER SIDE OF SOY - SCIENTISTS CONCERNED
OVER POTENTIAL HEALTH RISKS
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- ".......But two of the FDA,s experts on soy - Doerge
and his colleague, Daniel Sheehan - have stepped forward to criticize their
own agency's claim and even attempted in vain to stop the recommendation...."
and
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- "We are doing a large uncontrolled and unmonitored
experiment on human infants." --Dr. Daniel Sheehan, research scientist
for the FDA and expert on soy
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- http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_000609_soy_feature.html
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- Scientists Protest Soy Approval In Unusual
Letter,
FDA Experts Lay Out Concerns
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- Researchers Daniel Doerge and Daniel Sheehan, two of
the Food and Drug Administration,s experts on soy, signed a letter of protest,
which points to studies that show a link between soy and health problems
in certain animals. The two say they tried in vain to stop the FDA approval
of soy because it could be misinterpreted as a broader general endorsement
beyond benefits for the heart.
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- The text of the letter follows.
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- DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH and HUMAN SERVICES Public Health
Service, Food and Drug Administration National Center For Toxicological
Research Jefferson, Ark. 72079-9502 Daniel M. Sheehan, Ph.D. Director,
Estrogen Base Program Division of Genetic and Reproductive Toxicology and
Daniel R. Doerge, Ph.D. Division of Biochemical Toxicology February 18,
1999 Dockets Management Branch (HFA-305) Food and Drug Administration Rockville,
MD 20852 To whom it may concern,
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- We are writing in reference to Docket # 98P-0683; "Food
Labeling: Health Claims; Soy Protein and Coronary Heart Disease."
We oppose this health claim because there is abundant evidence that some
of the isoflavones found in soy, including genistein and equol, a metabolize
of daidzen, demonstrate toxicity in estrogen sensitive tissues and in the
thyroid. This is true for a number of species, including humans. Additionally,
the adverse effects in humans occur in several tissues and, apparently,
by several distinct mechanisms..."
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- http://abcnews.go.com/onair/2020/2020_000609_soyfdaletter_feature.html
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- The Dark Side of Soy - Supplements May Do More Harm Than
Good
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- http://www.businessweek.com/2000/00_51/b3712218.htm
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- Soy Story - The Politics Behind the Boneless
Protein
- By Britt Bailey
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- ...... "While soy production is growing, so is talk
of its purported benefits. Everywhere you turn it seems the media is touting
soybeans and their derivatives. The powers that be, namely Monsanto, DuPont,
Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland are betting their future on soy.
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- Back in the wings, a growing number of scientists are
quietly expressing concerns over soy's hidden risks. It is, after all,
a plant-borne hormone. And as history has shown , adding hormones to the
body is fraught with danger"....
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- http://www.cetos.org/agbioarticles/soystory.html
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- TOO MUCH TOFU INDUCES "BRAIN AGING" - STUDY
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- A Hawaii research team says high consumption of the soy
product by a group of men lowered mental abilities
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- http://starbulletin.com/1999/11/19/news/story4.html
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- PHYTOESTROGENS: ANTI-THYROID AGENTS
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- So just what are these goitrogenic agents? In 1997 research
from the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research (NCTR) showed
that the darling of the soy industry, the isoflavone genistein, was a potent
inhibitor of Thyroid Peroxidase (TPO); in fact genistein is a more powerful
inhibitor of TPO than common anti-thyroid drugs! If genistein could inhibit
TPO in vitro, it follows that it could result in an elevation of Thyroid
Stimulating Hormone (TSH), and a subsequent decrease in thyroxine (T3)
in vitro; in other words consumption of the soy isoflavone genistein might
result in hypothyroidism and goitre.
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- Recent research leaves little doubt that dietary isoflavones
in soy have a profound effect on thyroid function in humans. A study by
Japanese researchers concluded that intake of soy by healthy adults for
a long duration caused enlargement of the thyroid and suppressed thyroid
function....
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- http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/thyroid.htm
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- The Developmental Toxicity of Phytoestrogens in Experimental
Animals: Are There Concerns For Humans?
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- http://soyfoods.com/symposium/oa7_8.html
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- Tons more articles at
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz/Site_Map.htm
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