Soy foods can help in reducing breast cancer and prostate cancer? This claim are based on the hypothesis that Asian women tend to have lower breast cancer rate than their Western counterparts. What are the proof and scientific backing then? Today, more than 60% of processed food range from biscuits, cereals,ice-cream,mayonnaise to even baby formula contain soy beans. However,the breast cancer rate do not seem to decrease with the high consumption of soy based products.Why? We would like to wait those scientists come out with more valid conclusions.

Listed below are a few myth and truth about soy based product:

#Myth: Modern soy foods confer the same health benefits as traditionally fermented soy foods.
Truth: Soy was originally grown in China to fix the nitrogen, not for eating. Chinese started to consume soy when they discovered ways of fermenting it. Fermentation process will maintain the valuable amino acids and decrease the antinutrients in the soy. Most modern soy foods are not fermented to neutralize toxins in soybeans, and are processed in a way that denatures proteins and increases levels of carcinogens.

#Myth: Soy foods provide complete protein.
Truth: Like all legumes, soybeans are deficient insulfur-containing amino acids methionineand cystine. In addition, modern processing denatures fragile lysine.

#Myth: Soy formula is safe for infants.
Truth: Soy foods contain trypsin inhibitors that inhibit protein digestion and adversely affect pancreatic function. In test animals,diets high in trypsin inhibitors led to stunted growth and pancreatic disorders. Soy foods increase the body’s requirement for vitamin D, needed for strong bones and normal growth. Soy beans known for inducing flatulence because soy beans contain high level of acid phytic. Phytates prevent absorption of mineral in the body and act as enzyme inhibitors that block the key enzymes to digest the protein. Soya beans contain high level of plant estrogen/pytoestrogen. Estrogen is a type of female hormone.This hormone suppressed testosterone even in normal adult.( No wonder there is a rise in homosexuality in recent society. ) When you fed your baby with on soy formula alone, you are giving him/her equivalent of 5 birth control pills per day. Megadoses of phytoestrogens in soy formula also have been implicated in the current trend toward increasingly prematuresexual development in girls and delayed or retarded sexual development in boys.

#Myth: Soy estrogens (isoflavones) are good for you.
Truth: Soy isoflavones are phyto-endocrine disrupters. At dietary levels, they can prevent ovulation and stimulate the growth of cancer cells. As little as four tablespoons of soy per day can result in hypothyroidism with symptoms of lethargy, constipation, weight gain and fatigue.

#Myth: Soy isoflavones and soy protein isolate have GRAS (Generally Recognized as Safe) status.
Truth: Archer Daniels Midland recently withdrew its application to the FDA for GRAS status for soy isoflavones following an outpouring of protest from the scientific community.The FDA never approved GRAS status for soy protein isolate because of concern regarding the presence of toxins and carcinogens in processed soy.

#Myth: Phytoestrogens in soy foods can enhance mental ability.
Truth: A recent study found that women with the highest levels of estrogen in their blood had the lowest levels of cognitive function; in Japanese Americans tofu consumption in mid-life is associated with the occurrence of Alzheimer’s disease in later life.Think twice the next time before you drink soy milk!

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