Here is one woman's story on SOYA.
This is my true story, nothing altered. These are facts, as they
relate to my experience, my opinions based on what I have read and felt. I am
relating them to warn other young health-conscious women who are
unwittingly harming themselves.
In 1989, I graduated from high school in Texas and couldn't wait
to hit the big college city. One of the changes I wanted to make was to eat
healthier. Once I moved to health-conscious Austin, Texas, I began to
fortify my body with the best and healthiest foods I could find. Tofu was the main ingredient in every healthy dish and I bought soya milk almost
every day used it for everything from cereal to smoothies or just to drink
for a quick snack. I bought soya muffins, miso soup with tofu,soybeans, soybean, sprouts, etc. All the literature in all the health and fitness
magazinessaid that soya protected you against everything from heart disease to breast cancer. It was the magical isoflavones, the estrogen-like
hormones that all worked to help you stay young and healthy.
I looked great. I was working out all the time, but my menstrual cycle was off.
At 20,I started taking birth control pills to regulate my menstrual cycle.
In addition to this I began to suffer from painful periods. I began to get
puffy, it was as though I was losing my muscle tone. I began to suffer from
depression and getting hot flashes. I mistook all this for PMS since my
periods were irregular.
By the time I was 25, my periods were so bad,I couldn't walk. The birth
control pills never made them regular or less painful so I decided to stop taking them. I went on like this for another two years until I realized my pain wasn't
normal. At 27, my gynecologist found two cysts in my uterus. Both were the
size of tennis balls. I went through surgery to have them removed and thank
God they were benign. The gynecologist told me to go back on birth control
pills. I didn't.
In 1998, he discovered a lump in my breast. Again, I went through surgery and again it was benign. In November 2000 my glands swelled up and my gums
became inflamed. Thinking I had a tooth infection I went to the dentist who
told me that teeth were not the problem.
After a dose of antibiotics the swelling still did not go down. At thispoint I could feel a tiny nodule on the right side of my neck. I told my mother I had thyroid trouble. She thought I was being silly. No one in the family suffered from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch I saw a specialist who diagnosed me with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma.
After a series of tests he told me it was cancer. My fiance and I sat stunned. We were not prepared and I was so scared. We scheduled
surgeryright away.
The specialist told us that it would only be after the operation that a pathologist would be able to tell us for sure if it was cancer. They found a tumor at my right lobe composed of irregular cells and another smaller tumor growing on the left, so the entire thyroid was removed.
They told me that after undergoing radioactive iodine I would be safe and assured me that I could live a long life.
After treatment I began to search for the cause of all these problems. I never nce thought it could be all the soya I had consumed for nearly ten years.After all, soya is healthy.
I came upon a web page that linked thyroid problems to soya intake and the conspiracy of soya marketed as by-product of the vegetable oil industry.
This was insane, after all, the health and fitness magazines had said
nothing about soya being harmful.
I visited a herbalist who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 1985. She
informed me that soya was the culprit. She had a hysterectomy due to cysts
and other uterine problems.
A few months later another acquaintance who had consumed soya came down
withthyroid cancer.
A girl in England I met through the Internet in a thyroid cancer forum had
just undergone surgery and she was only 19. What was going on?
Breast cancer is linked to estrogen. What mimics estrogen in the femalebody, SOYA! But I never suspected soya because until now I never once found
a single article that stated soya could be dangerous.
Women who took soya prior to thyroid problems will continue to
take itafterif they are not aware of what soya actually does, what it contains and howit reacts in the female body. I think this is the reason that
women withthyroid cancer often develop breast cancer later.
My co-worker is big into soya and I see her losing hair and gaining weight
despite a walking workoutduring her break and after work, and apples and oranges for lunch. She justhad cysts removed from her uterus too. I warned her to stay off soya. Ireferred her to websites but until it is on the evening news on
all fournetworks, women will suffer. Since the thyroidectomy, I do not
touch soya, haven't for two years.
Dear readers,
Please use my story in any way you can. There are so many young
girls who are consuming soya because they think they are taking care of
themselves,and women taking soya because they want to be
healthy. It is so unfair that the information about the dangers of soya isn't more widely circulated. It is sad.
Here are some references:
http://www.netlink.de/gen/Zeitung/2000/000813.htmlhttp://www.netlink.de/gen/Zeitung/2000/000813.htmlhttp://www.biotech-info.net/soya.htmlhttp://www.biotech-info.net/soya.htmlhttp://www.haelan.co.uk/Wholefood-Soya.shtmlhttp://www.haelan.co.uk/Wholefood-Soya.shtml
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