Don't Consume more Soya!

This is a forwarded message. I thought this might help ladies who face similar problems..I am not sure all these are true, but you can check with the following links.

ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA...All Males-PLEASE pass this info to ALL your
female friends... It may save their lives! Something to take note of. 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 arming 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 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. 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 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 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 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 warned her to stay off soya. I referred 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.



Here are some references:

http://www.netlink.de/gen/Zeitung/2000/000813.html

http://www.biotech-info.net/soya.html

http://www.haelan.co.uk/Wholefood-Soya.shtml

http://www.haelan.co.uk/Wholefood-Soya.shtml

 

shared good information.

Before posting this I was confused, since people are running for soya, after hearing a lot of it's advantages..
It is so nice of you Chithra that you shared your experience..Thanks!