NEW
GM study highlights risks to unborn babies.
Natural Products - Industry News February 2006
A study carried out by Russian scientists has found that the unborn babies
of rats fed on modified soya are five times more likely to die within three
weeks of birth than those fed on normal soya, reports food-e-news. The
research has raised fears about the potential risks for unborn human babies.
In the Russian study carried out by Erina Ermakova of the Russian Academy of Sciences, GM soya bean flour was added to the diet of female rats starting two weeks before they conceived and continued through pregnancy, birth and nursing. Another group of rats were given non-GM soya and a third group no soya at all. The most startling and worrying finding was that 55.6% of the rats born to mothers on the GM diet died within three weeks of birth, compared to 9% of the offspring on those fed on normal soya, and 6.8% of the young of those given no soya at all.
The results of the survey also showed that 36% of the young rats born to mothers fed the GM diet were underweight compared with only 6% of the offspring in the other two diet groups.
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It is actually quite difficult to find non GM soya products now.
Do you eat Soya? You may not think you do. This article that was published in the Guardian on July 25 2006 is a much needed wake up call.
Guardian Soya Article August 2000 URGENT READING
Over the past few years I have become increasingly concerned with the true dangers of eating soya products of all types, including soya milk, tofu, beans and soy sauce. Soya has consistently come up as a serious food intolerance for 99.9% of people I have tested. The few who could take it were culturally tolerant. Please also read the following story which was forwarded to me and I feel warrants publication on this site. It illustrates clearly my very worst fears about this product, which is being feted as a health food and of great benefit to women's health in particular.
ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA ...
Please pass this info to your female friends........
"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 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. I used it for everything from cereal to smoothies or just to drink for a quick snack. I bought soya muffins, miso soup with tofu, soyabeans, soyabean sprouts, etc.
All the literature in all the health and fitness magazines said 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. 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 gynaecologist 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 gynaecologist 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 this point 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 surgery right 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 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
once 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 a health food when in fact it is only a toxic 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 with thyroid 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 female body, 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 it after if they are not aware of what soya actually does, what it contains and how it reacts in the female body. I think this is the reason that women with thyroid 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 workout during her break and after work, and apples and oranges for lunch. She just had cysts removed from her uterus too. I warn her to stay off soya. I refer her to websites but until it is on the evening news on all four networks, 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. There are many out there who feel this way and it is a terrible blow when you realize you are not as healthy as you thought and that the information that you depended on was wrong."
If you have inherited Japanese, Chinese, South East Asian or South American genetics
you may have slightly more tolerance of soya products but if not beware of Soya and all
soy products. This is a new food
only introduced to the west in the last 30 years and 99% of western people I
test for soy are highly intolerant to it. Your
body has not been able to adjust and evolve into the very high level of natural
hormones contained in this food. The
1% of westerners that could take some fermented soy when I tested them all had some Japanese or
South American ancestry, cultures which have eaten Soya for centuries.
These studies were carried out on a western population. The studies that support the widely publicized benefits of taking soy, all result from longitudinal studies on people whose cultures have eaten soy products as a main part of their diets for hundreds of years. Yes for them soy is beneficial and can protect against cancer. But for the westerner, the opposite is true. It is not just in vegetarian products such as tofu and Soya milk that the danger lies. Soya is a key ingredient in products from meat sausages and fish fingers to salad creams and breakfast cereals. The Soya Industry, worth six billion dollars in the States each year alone, insists that the health benefits outweigh the risks. Richard Barnes, European director of the US Soy Bean Association said, ‘Millions of people around the world have been eating Soya for years and have shown no signs of abnormalities’. Have we? I am slowly gathering evidence for my claim. Having tested so many people for Soya and had it rejected 99% of the time, I am convinced it is NOT safe for a Westerner with no history of Soya in their blood inheritance. Add to this the fact it is all genetically modified. I strongly advise you avoid it until more is known about the long-term effects of it on us, if we are ever going to be told the truth. Eating it once a week will not do you any harm as your body will have time to detox any harmful effects, it is the buildup that does the damage. This includes all soy products such as soymilk, Tofu, Soy Sauce unless used very occasionally, and soybeans. If you are vegetarian, use other seeds, nuts and pulses which are also high in protein and much safer.
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