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Food for thought
Don't know if you eat soya, but this is SHOCKING!!!!
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 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 flashes. I mistook all this for PMS since my periods
were irregular. By the time I was 25, my periods were 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 family
suffered from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch I saw a specialist who
diagnosed me with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.
After a series of tests he told me it was cancer. My fiancé and I sat stunned.
We were not prepared and I was so scared. We scheduled surgery right away. The
specialist told us that it would only be after the operation that a pathologist
would be able to tell us for sure if it was cancer. They found a tumor at my
right lobe composed of irregular cells and another smaller tumor growing on the
left, so the entire thyroid was removed.
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, afterall, the health
and fitness magazines had 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 a hysterectomy due to cysts
and other uterine problems. A few months later another acquaintance who had
consumed 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 websites 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 way you can. 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.
Here are some references
http://www.netlink.de/gen/Zeitung/2000/000813.html
http://www.biotech-info.net/soya.html
http://www.haelan.co.uk/Wholefood-Soya.shtml
http://www.haelan.co.uk/Wholefood-Soya.shtml