First of all, the origins of soybean use, 3000 years ago, in ancient China, Japan and Indonesia came out of poverty and famine. The soybean did not serve as a food until the discovery of fermentation techniques.1 Soybeans were used for crop rotation to add nitrogen to the soil.
They were not eaten.
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These ancient peoples would have rather eaten fish and meat they just did not have enough. Soy Protein or Tofu evolved as a poor man's meat substitute. It was discovered that fermenting the soybeans gave them a better flavor, made them more edible and medicines could be created from the soybeans-like Nattokinase. It is the fermenting of soy that makes it wholesome in small quantities. This fermentation of foods has been used since ancient times to reserve food and create medicines from food, and is known as "Alchemy".2
The Chinese did not eat unfermented soybeans because of the large quantities of natural toxins or "antinutrients" that can cause serious gastric distress, reduced protein digestion and conditions of the pancreas along with cancer.1 Unfermented soy is not wholesome at all and large quantities, such as the levels currently consumed in America, is very detrimental to our health. It has been associated to hypothyroidism, early puberty in children, loss of testosterone, and many other hormone associated condition problems.2 The American soy business took the unfermented soybean, genetically modified it and bastardized it into an unhealthy food that nature never intended. What is added compounding the question is the relentless multi-billion dollar marketing campaign to convince us that soy is condition food and we should eat it in quantity.
"Marketing costs money, especially when it needs to be bolstered with "research", but there are plentifulness of funds available. Soybean producers pay million annually to reserve United Soybean's schedule to "strengthen the position of soybeans in the marketplace and avow and expand domestic and foreign markets for uses for soybeans and soybean products." incommunicable companies like Archer Daniels Midland also conduce their share. Adm spent million for advertising while the course of a year."1 Adm is, of course, the corporation that brought us Hydrogenated Soybean Oil or "Trans Fats". The marketing is working. "Sales from soy milk alone have risen from million in 1980 to over 0 million in the Us last year."1
The best marketing strategy for a goods that is inherently unhealthy is, of course, a condition claim. 1
Claims that eating soy can "lower cholesterol levels" and "reduce cancer" have been approved by the Fda after heavy lobbying and "alleged research" from the soy business supposedly proving a condition benefit. The opposite is legitimately true. Soy contains "antinutrients" that are toxic and carcinogenic to the human body.2
Soy protein (Tofu) is the spoogy waste leftover from making soybean oil. This sludgy byproduct from the soy oil business was determined a waste goods and animal feed until recently. By the way, animals do not like soybeans whether and will only eat them when they are starving to death.
When I first started weight training I picked up a tub of vanilla flavored soy protein powder and started chugging down some chalky, ill tasting shakes with glee. I concept I was doing myself a big favor but exiguous did I know I was legitimately reversing any occasion of muscular gains. Scanning through a up-to-date "Muscle Magazine" I saw an report supposedly reviewing the distinct protein powder supplements available on the store today. The report pictured provocative protein tubs with kindly faces on them and the names "Soy", "Whey", "Casein" and "Egg". Whey and Soy were portrayed as the best selection for health, low cost and nutritional value. Now listen determined to what I am going to tell you next. They Are Lying To You! Whey and Soy protein are waste products from the food industry, cleverly disguised as "health food" and heavily marketed to the American consumer.
Soy Protein separate is a heavily processed product. A slurry of soybeans is acid washed and then mixed with an alkaline solution. Acid washing in aluminum tanks leaches high levels of aluminum into the final product. The curd is then dried at high temperatures wholly denaturing the final goods and making the protein ineffective and drastically altered from what nature intended. Animals on soy feed have to legitimately be given lysine supplements for general growth.2
Don't trust Men's Fitness magazine either. "Open a copy and you will find pages and pages of full color ads for soy based candy bars and instant beverages promoted as a way to create the macho man with perfect abs. Sadly-ironically-most issues include the principal report advising these super-built Lotharios how to have great sex. Were Men's Fitness to warn it's readers about the fact that soy lowers testosterone levels in men, advertising revenues would dry up and the magazine would fold."2 (Kaayla T. Daniel)
Tear up your Fitness and Muscle Magazines that are filled with lies and eat a yummy steak or fish dinner.
Maybe you have heard of Edamame, the new "healthy" baby green soybean pods. While eating at a local Sushi cafeteria recently I noticed tables of customers nearby me happily munching on Steamed Edamame appetizers. legitimately this must be good, right? Wrong! Edamame is crap too! The good news is these baby soybeans still in the pod are tender and more palatable. They also include less of the harmful plant estrogens that diminish testosterone. So I would collate them to light cigarettes. They are much less harmful than regular soybeans that are loaded with anti-testosterone hormones!
Supporters of Soy debunk milk and supporters of milk (from pastured animals) debunk soy. They are both right and they are both wrong. Small amounts of milk from pure pastured animals would be nice and ideal but not necessary. Small amounts of fermented soy products like Nattokinase and Miso prepared the ancient way are Ok and determined rehabilitation in the East.
If you are not eating organic, you should know that 99% of the non-organic soy we eat is genetically modified and has one of the highest percentages of contamination by pesticides of any of our foods.1 This processed, genetically modified "American Soy" that we know, is poisoning us and causing illness and disease.
Soy Protein perfect for lowering Testosterone
Eating Soy protein causes lowered Testosterone levels. This is especially troubling to men and bodybuilders. To a bodybuilder, soy protein is like Kryptonite! The plant estrogens will rob you of your manhood, shrink your muscles and lower your sex drive. ancient monks used to eat extra tofu to help them to legitimately avow their vows of celibacy.2
Vegetarians who consume tofu and bean curd as a substitute for meat risk severe mineral deficiencies. The results of calcium, magnesium and iron scantness are well known; those of zinc are less so.1 I met someone recently who was vegetarian and ate lots of tofu because she "loves animals". For gods sake don't eat a waste goods from a crappy bean because you love animals! Love animals and eat raw nuts, "quality" beans and maybe some eggs. I love and respect animals as well and I am often astounded by the awesome beauty of nature's wild creatures. Humans, however, did not rise to the top of the food chain just to step aside and eat tofu because we love animals. I love them, respect them and eat some of them too!
Dump your milk down the sink! Spit your Tofu out the window! Throw your milk and soy products in the dumpster today and be healthier tomorrow!
Sources:
1: Fallon, Sally & Enig, Mary G., newest investigate On Why You Should Avoid Soy
2: Daniel, Kaayla T., The Whole Soy Story, New Trends Publishing, 2005
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