The Wellness of YOU! - # 172 - Soy Products — Good or Bad?
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Thanks for watching the video. Now, let’s talk a little about Eating Soy Products ….
There is so much being said about soy in the news lately. One of the things you’ll hear is that eating soy will do you in, for good!
Well, you need to know that’s true — IF — and this is a BIG IF — IF you are a mouse — and you have no ovaries — and you have no immune system — and you’re eating highly processed soy extracts in mega doses that humans were never meant to eat.
Scan some media reports and surf the Internet, however, and you’re bound to come across scary claims like:
- Soy will give you breast cancer…
- Soy formula is dangerous to babies…
- Genetically modified soy foods may modify you…
- Soy foods block your thyroid function…
- Soy prevents the absorption of minerals and blocks
digestion…
- Tofu causes Alzheimer’s disease.
On the other hand, you may also have heard:
- Broccoli has natural pesticides that will kill you…
- Grapefruit contains naringenin, a potent compound that can
have toxic interactions with medications…
- Celery contains toxins that damage the immune system…
- Spinach contains oxalates that bind calcium and prevent
calcium absorption…
- Mushrooms contain toxic compounds that cause cancer…
With mixed messages like these, no wonder so many of us are confused!
So what’s the story here — well, there’s some good news and some bad news.
From what I’ve discovered after digging into this a bit, soy may not be the be-all and end-all that we were led to think - and — it’s also not as awful as the latest media reports would have you believe. There is a detailed report from the Agency for HealthCare Research and Quality called, “The Effects of Soy on Health Outcomes” at (www.ahrq.gov) that came to this conclusion: There is no evidence of significant benefit or harm based on the quality of evidence that exists today.
So what are you going to do? My recommendation is not to panic. MOst of the studies that are behind the media reports involve consumption of soy in much higher doses than any of us would ever consume. I mean, how many of us are going to eat a pound of tofu or drink three soy protein shakes every day? We just don’t eat that way. These studies just aren’t based on what normal people would do.
Let’s take some of the myths apart … We’ll look at one of these today, and I’ll discuss some of the others in the next posting on Wednesday.
One of the myths is that eating soy will cause breast cancer, because soy foods contain some natural plant compounds (isoflavones) that may work in humans like hormones. So there are some people who think that these isoflavones could increase hormonally driven conditions like breast cancer.
That doesn’t seem to hold true according to research findings. It actually looks like it’s the other way around.
- All population studies (studies of groups of people) of soy either show reduced breast cancer risk or no effect at all, one way or the other.
- The only studies to show increased cancer risk are on mice with no ovaries or damaged immune systems and who eat high amounts of processed soy.
- Studies in mice WITH ovaries and functioning immune systems show reduced tumor growth.
- Mice studies may not reflect the effect of soy on humans.
- High breast tissue density is linked to a higher risk of breast cancer. Breast tissue density increases with estrogen replacement, but decreases with isoflavone consumption in postmenopausal women. That’s not bad — that’s good.
- Eating soy foods at an early age (childhood and the teen years) appears to have a significant protective effect against breast cancer.
If you really want to reduce your risk of breast cancer, drink less alcohol and eat fewer trans and saturated fats - those two things that are so prominent in our diets in America can do considerable harm.
That’s it for today.
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