the evil soy

I've got a newsletter from Dr.Mercola in which he promotes his article on the dangers of soy formula. I was avoiding soy even before I heard about paleo, being convinced it's one of the worst plants to eat, especially in its processed form.

In this article he brings new research that links being fed soy formula in infancy to fibroid tumors in adulthood. I knew soy is really bad for hormonal balance, but I had no idea it's that bad. According to various studies babies had 13,000- 22.000 times more estrogen than when fed milk formula or breastfed. This numbers are terrifying!
It is good that some countries (like Israel) are getting in the way of big corporations to protect the little ones by banning soy-based formula.

It's really sad especially for young, health oriented, women, who have no idea why they have issues with fertility or menstruation. They are trying to it "healthy" replacing meat with soy "food", drinking soy milk instead of cow milk, and feed on highly processed "low fat" products made of petroleum-quality franken-soy products. I have a friend who, because of various serious health issues, got on vegan, low-fat diet. I was pained with her through her lack of luck to become pregnant. Both she and her husband were on vegetarian diets. I know there is no proof, but I do think that their diet was an important factor in the problems. I happy that they were able to adopt and enjoy parenthood. But I can't help but wonder if the big amounts of soy, grains and lack of fat were the culprit.