Soy
Soy has made me crazy.
Some years ago, when I was taking voice lessons, I forget how it came up, but my teacher mentioned that soy was poison. I didn't think anything of it under some months later, when I was having a bad siege of migraines, and the only thing new in my life was my discovery of soy chips. I asked Jerry what he'd meant back then when he said that soy was poison. He explained that the body thinks it is female hormones, among other others.
For me, this is BAD. Extra female hormones = migraines. So I laid off the soy chips, with sorrow. I started limiting how much soy sauce I used, avoided soy-based sauces on Asian food, and gave up miso soup (::sob!::). Then I thought I'd try diet shakes. Migraines. Checked the label. Soy.
Migraines today. Checked the Nilla Wafers. Soy. Graham Crackers. Soy. Pretzel thins. Soy. Well, I shouldn't be eating these things anyway. Nutrition bars, for when my blood sugar tanks? I have to pick very carefully. Fortunately, Lärabar provides an entire line of soy-free bars (also gluten free, dairy free, and kosher, for those who care), so I don't have to squint at teeny print all the time; I can just get my favorites.
My doctor wants me to take more calcium. (Older women, you know--though you younger ones should get a head start so you're not panicking about thin bones at my age.) I got nice expensive big-hog calcium tablets, suitable for killing wildlife. Nature something, good for you, right?
Soy. My new multi vitamin, soy. My new D and Calcium, soy.
I bet most poisons wouldn't give me migraines. I can't have half of the salad dressings out there because they're vinaigrettes and burn a hole in my stomach, and the other half because they have soy. Ditto condiments like mayo. I have to check labels for soup, chocolate milk, and many, many other things, because they may have soy.
Do we really need this much soy in our lives? Seriously, I can't be the only one who has major issues with this stuff.
The topping on the cake was almost all of my vitamins having it. What in hell do vitamins need soy for when soy isn't listed as the source of the vitamin?
It's as bad as checking the salt content on things.
Some years ago, when I was taking voice lessons, I forget how it came up, but my teacher mentioned that soy was poison. I didn't think anything of it under some months later, when I was having a bad siege of migraines, and the only thing new in my life was my discovery of soy chips. I asked Jerry what he'd meant back then when he said that soy was poison. He explained that the body thinks it is female hormones, among other others.
For me, this is BAD. Extra female hormones = migraines. So I laid off the soy chips, with sorrow. I started limiting how much soy sauce I used, avoided soy-based sauces on Asian food, and gave up miso soup (::sob!::). Then I thought I'd try diet shakes. Migraines. Checked the label. Soy.
Migraines today. Checked the Nilla Wafers. Soy. Graham Crackers. Soy. Pretzel thins. Soy. Well, I shouldn't be eating these things anyway. Nutrition bars, for when my blood sugar tanks? I have to pick very carefully. Fortunately, Lärabar provides an entire line of soy-free bars (also gluten free, dairy free, and kosher, for those who care), so I don't have to squint at teeny print all the time; I can just get my favorites.
My doctor wants me to take more calcium. (Older women, you know--though you younger ones should get a head start so you're not panicking about thin bones at my age.) I got nice expensive big-hog calcium tablets, suitable for killing wildlife. Nature something, good for you, right?
Soy. My new multi vitamin, soy. My new D and Calcium, soy.
I bet most poisons wouldn't give me migraines. I can't have half of the salad dressings out there because they're vinaigrettes and burn a hole in my stomach, and the other half because they have soy. Ditto condiments like mayo. I have to check labels for soup, chocolate milk, and many, many other things, because they may have soy.
Do we really need this much soy in our lives? Seriously, I can't be the only one who has major issues with this stuff.
The topping on the cake was almost all of my vitamins having it. What in hell do vitamins need soy for when soy isn't listed as the source of the vitamin?
It's as bad as checking the salt content on things.
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Urg. Why can't food just be what it IS?O_o
honestly, I would be very happy if things were truly garden fresh or freshly delivered without the addition of additives or preservatives, unfortunately, this is not the case, as the nearly universal desire for ease and conveinience have stripped such factors away, as well as what many companies and resteraunts believe to be what is desired... something to attract people more to their products and food... since it is proven that people will eat more fried, salty or sweet foods, this is what many companies strive for, to make their products like a drug to humans...(which has been proven that sugary things are comparable to cocaine in that there is a desire for more of the product once initially tasted, the same release of chemicals that give pleasure as the drug, and the same type of physical and psychological addiction to the product as to the drug)
My own parents have major issues with soy in products... My dad cannot get anything moe than a salad at any of those chain/franchise resteraunts as they had to start using soy oil(panning it off as vegetable oil) due to the new health regulation law passed.
AS for why so much stuff has soy in it... it is a cheap way to add filler and used as a binder in many things, and we all know that the companies that use it do so because it is so cheap so they can maximixe their profits...