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Everything You Need To Know About Soy
7 years ago in #life by therusticvegan (53)
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Soy is indeed a very controversial food. Though there are many scientific studies proving its benefits for health there are almost as many finding contrary results. Given my own experience with soy, I believe the latter, which doesn't make it easy for me to eat out as a vegan since they use soy in so many dishes. Every time I eat soy it messes with my hormones. For me eating soy (unfermented) always results in painfully swollen milk glands and other health issues... health food or not? I think there is no straight answer just yet. We also have to be careful quoting research as some of it is funded by the food and soy industry. Steem on my vegan friend!
While there are many health benefits to soy, there are also many downsides.
In creating a meal replacement drink and intending to rely heavily on soy protein isolate, I did hours of research to disprove my friend's claim that moderate-high soy consumption was detrimental. In the end I was forced to concede that my friend was, in fact, correct about this matter.
Even 50 grams of soy protein isolate per day appears to be flirting with trouble. And theoretically soy protein isolate should have a fair deal of the phytoestrogens removed compared with raw soy.
Soy has health benefits, IN MODERATION. The level of safe soy consumption is lower than many proponents claim and it has detrimental impacts on both sexes.
Time and time again when debating nutrition the China study constantly comes up and is continually used as a reference even though that the raw data does not support its findings.
https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/the-china-study-revisited/
What about all the other evidence mentioned I this article?
There may be flawed data in that study but the evidence supporting a plant based diet/reduction of meat and dairy consumption to improve health is overwhelming.
there will always be rebuttal and counter articles. Harriet Hall has been know to be extremely biased. given the information i have provided with numerous results i would politely ask to question everything. where is Harriet Hall's years of research and results? everything in moderation with all things.
Great post! I’ve been vegetarian for over 6 years now and fully vegan for about a year. I’m 39, in great shape, workout 4 to 5 times a week and have tons of energy. Removing dairy from my life has had a big impact and as someone who cares about and has great respect for all animals I feel better as a person!
absolutely amazing to hear man! i always love hearing the positive impacts of this lifestyle change in people and being able to spread that knowledge to others. its an awakening !
Thank you for posting this, have been confused about this topic for a while although I never really actively thought about researching about this myself (probably because I knew that I would never be able to eliminate tofu from my vegan diet; didn't want to risk finding negative stuff about soy).
However you don't seem to mention the impact of soy production on our environment - I feel that we have to consider this in relation to our soy intake as well, as it is also a very important matter. Would like to read about your thoughts on that! Maybe for a next post?
thanks for the message. we must pick our battles while we cannot always win them all. by eliminating all animal products we are having a massive positive impact on the planet, while we might not win the battle over the soy production, again picking one or the other sometimes is all we have.
Wow! All this information. That was a lot of work! Thanks for the research!
welcome my bro thanks for checking it out !
Wow, thanks for this informative post about soy!
I have been eating soy on a regular basis (the fermented kind in tempeh and tofu) and I feel absolutely amazing. It is quite a phenomenon that people are scared of eating a plant/bean but don't care about how animal products affect their health :/
I featured you in my new post and hope you like it! Much love, xoxo
again thanks so much lovely :) the fermented kind is the best ! thank you for the feature !
You're most welcome ♥
Wow I never knew it would do more good to the body am happy to know about soy and it's effect thanks
youre welcome thanks for reading !
I've been a vegetarian for 15 years, and now 100% plant-based for almost 6 months. I'm Asian (Filipino) and soy products are everywhere. I'm taking it in moderation because I think I'm not reacting very well to it. I experience bloating/water retention if I eat too much of it.
only TVP bloats my stomach immediately. It's extremely processed so i consume that very rarely. tofu, tempeh etc have no affect on me at all, i eat that much more !
I'm still figuring out the best food items for me especially for weight loss. I'm 39 years old with a history of hypothyroidism. Though my thyroid hormone levels have been on the "normal" range for years, I still think it really affected my metabolism already. I've been off meds too, so I try to heal myself through food. That's why I went plant-based.
Thank you for sharing, very informative
my pleasure thank you for reading !
Fantastic post @therusticvegan! I was wondering this very thing a few days ago, and the info you've given here answers all my questions! Thanks very much!
You may want to consider tagging any posts like this with #makeithealthy... a new community project I've just launched, and info like this is invaluable! For details of the project, see here.
Excellent blog, keep it coming!
T. Colin Campbell and Dr. Dean Ornish are my "guru". I started my vegan diet with "China study". Thank you for very helpful post! Good job!
Such a great read!
I love that you wrote about this topic! These are very important facts that most of us dont know really. I dont eat much soy but sometimes;) If it is gmo free and organic I think it can be ok. But I am not a fan of the texture haha!;)
Love love love this blog- it is such a controversial food, and nutrition in general is a controversial topic. Nutrition is in it's infancy as a science! So even when people do argue with me about soy, I say exactly the topics you brought up- make sure that it is in it's most natural form- organic soybeans, tempeh or natto, or minimally processed soy products.
Thank you for posting, and with good references!