Dr. Mercola September 04 2008 25,773 views
My first car was a used 1964 Chevelle Malibu SuperSport. Yummm! I was 22+ and didn't have the brains of a box of rocks. I was in the process of moving from a house to an apartment and forgot to close the passenger side door and as I backed out of the drive way the hedge on that side caught the door and ripped it right off. The door was on the ground. Then I destroyed the rear end acting like an idiot at a stop light. I was a divorced, single mom and doing stuff that makes my gray hair curl every time I think about it. I don't know how in the world I made it to 62+. :) Hugs from Florida
A big problem with soy is that people who've switched to it often have an emotional stake in continuing to use it. They feel righteous (and self-righteous) because they're eating soy rather than an animal product. "Natural" foods (i.e., processed foods in health food stores) often have a huge amount of soy, which creates a strong economic pressure on the natural foods industry to downplay the dangers of soy consumption.
In my own case, I switched to soy a couple of decades ago... I drank two or three quarts of soy milk a day, made smoothies from it, used it on my breakfast cereal, ate cereal made of soy protein, added tofu to at least one meal a day, ate tofu hot dogs, ate tofu burgers, mixed it in with scrambled eggs and with smoothies .... I lived that way for several years, because I thought soy was a "healthy" alternative to dairy.
I found, during this period, that, "unaccountably," my allergies and food sensitivities got worse, I got cranky, I had low energy, I had intense emotional ups and downs (mostly downs), and I seemed to be always fighting off colds and flus. (When I'd get colds, they'd drag on forever). I stopped jogging because I no longer had the energy for it. The more soy I ate, the sicker I got, though I didn't connect the two at the time. I also felt mentally dull, and thought I must be "getting old."
When I stopped eating soy products, or cut way down (thanks, I think, to articles I had read on Dr. Mercola's web page), I experienced an immediate improvement in my health, energy levels, emotions and mental clarity. I feel better and "younger" now than I did in my soy eating years.... more energy, sharp and clear mentally, and life is usually fun. Removing soy from my diet wasn't the only change I made...I added more omega 3s, take a lot of fish oil and other supplements... but I think that removing soy was a large factor in the improvement. I experienced.
I have been hypothyroid for over 15 years due to autoimmune problems....the only time i had to increase my meds was when I started drinking soy milk, eating tofu and soy burgers in the late 90's. it only took several months of soy to effect my thyroid. I made the connection, did some more research and immediately quit eating soy. I've never had to increase my meds since then, however, the damage that was done did not reverse. I've often thought i would like to become a vegetarian, however, all of the vegetarian diets i have seen include tons of soy so that it out.
annkees1, a vegan diet does not have to include 'tons of soy'. I invite you to do more research regarding a soy free vegan diet before giving up on this healthy lifestyle. Meat and dairy will do far more harm to your health in the long run.
Animal products are healthy only when they are free range, not factory farmed. The amounts you should eat depends on your NT.
When you go vegan, it is quite easy to become deficient in complete protein. Most vegetarians do not even eat enough vegetables. That explains they may feel tired, hungry, and irritable when they cut out meat from your diet. I balance the amino acids by consuming quinoa, legumes, and hemp.
I learned that from the book Thrive Diet by a vegan triathlete Brendan Brazier.
www.brendanbrazier.com
He tried many different diets to test his recovery from exercise.
I used to eat a lot of protein from nuts, peanuts, seeds, and eggs, but I didn't eat enough leafy vegetables. I felt full but I still somewhat craved something. When I drank spinach juice, almost immediately the cravings were gone even though there weren't very much calories.
It's not just the calories that makes the food satisfying, you also need the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, and phytonutrients.
yeah, start by getting a grip on reality. you act like they don't have a chance at normal life. reading too much mercola can cause irrepairable damage.
I wouldn't worry too much. I gave both my 15 year old daughter and 13 year old son soy formula. They still use soy milk in their cereal every day. (Don't like the taste of cow's milk.) They both went/are going through puberty just fine.
Be sure to give your children Omega-3 oil everyday for the rest of their lives. Remember the body creates new cells every 120 days. Nature is a great healer of the body if we keep to the rule: the less that is done to a food the better it is for us. Live foods make live people. Just think of all the packaging that is out there. Look into Lennon Smiths books on kids nutrition and Adelle Davis classic on Keeping Our Children Healthy. It is realy quite simple to keep it simple and true to our nature. Love to your family.
Right!! When we know better, we can do better. I was told to give my five weeks premature baby girl Infamile w/iron to supplement breat feeding back in 1966 to help her gain weight. I gave my baby boy what I think was a soy based formula instead of breast feeding because we had to make a trip to Florida that required us to leave him with his grandmother for a couple days. WHY!! Hind sight is always 20/20. It was what it was back then. Computers were not even a twinkle in somebody's eye that I know of back then. My information comes to me via a search engine and forums and newsletters now. I love it and I am learning more and more each and every day thanks to people like Dr. Mercola and Jonathan V. Wright and Dr. Weston A Price and even Dr. William Campbell Douglass. I never knew about Linus Pauling's research with Vitamin C. I did not know how much medicine had been so corrupted by big pharma. I never even considered that pasturized milk was less than nutritious. Now I know and I'm lucky that I am close to a family farm that sells organic produce and real milk as a pet consumption item. :D. Go figure. I share all this wonderful information with others. Want to know what I get back in response most of the time? "You mean straight from the cow? That's disgusting. I'm not going to drimk that". They drink Silk. Go figure. My son's girlfriend has headaches. They both use NutraSweet/Equal. I told them both what I had learned. "Oh, I don't believe that. It' wouldn't be in our food if it was so dangerous". Hugs from Florida