Soy, Healthy or Unhealthy?

     Soy is listed as a health food, and most health food stores carry it, but the question is; is soy as healthy as they say it is?
     Recently there has been some studies done on soy and how it can be a good deterrent of breast cancer and prostate cancer. Seeing how soy is a multibillion dollar industry, I have to question the studies because, let's face the fact that where money is involved studies can be influenced. There always seems to be an agenda when money is involved and when it comes to soy, a multibillion dollar industry, there is definitely money involved.   Another reason why I question the studies is that it goes against all logic, here's what I mean: first of all, soy, unless it's  fermented, is high in phytic acid. Phytic acid blocks  micro nutrients like minerals from being absorbed into the body. This is extremely dangerous due to the fact that our soils have been depleted of  most minerals so our foods are grown in synthetics soils  lacking minerals in the first place, plus, the live Stock we eat are being fed the same plants that lack minerals  making them less healthy, so eating anything high in phytic acid that blocks our minerals from absorption, I would consider to be highly dangerous.
     Need more science?  All right, let's look at Dr. Warburg who won a Nobel Prize for finding out what causes cancer; " It's the lack of oxygen in our cells caused by the fermentation of sugar  or anything that causes a lack of oxygen will cause cancer."    Now let's look at another 2 Nobel Prize winners; Neher and Sakmann.    They built a tool that was able to find out how the ion channels in the mitochondria of our cells work, negative ions open up the ion channels  allowing oxygen and nutrients to get into the cell  and positive ions close  the ion channel  not allowing oxygen and nutrients to get into the cells.
     Now,  let's put two and two together, if the lack of oxygen  in our cells causes cancer  and plants that are acidic, meaning having too many positive ions to negative ions, causes our ion channels to close, and have high amounts of phytic acid that blocks the absorption of the minerals that carry the negative ions to our cells,  (because ions attach to minerals),  then you must conclude that soy, having high amounts of phytic acid and being an acidic plant, has a good chance of causing cancer, not to mention all the other problems that come with the lack of minerals and oxygen.
     Another argument is that the Orientals been eating soy for thousands of years and are quite healthy. Here is a little history on that subject;  the Orientals  didn't always eat soy, there was a time  when they avoided it due to the fact  that when they fed it to their livestock  the livestock would get sick and many of them would die.  It wasn't until  they learned how to ferment the soy did they start eating it. When a food is fermented the  phytonutrients are broken down and changed, even new nutrients can be found, so the phytic acid is  reduced and the goitrogens (also found in soy) are eliminated.  Their  fermentation and processing of their soy is a lot different from that of  the way we process soy hear in United States. It's just like us to cut corners to save money and  then turn around making false claims about a product we're trying to make money from. Orientals  don't eat large amounts of unfermented soy like we do in this country.
     Soy is also very hard to digest and a lot of people are allergic to soy  or at least have soy intolerance. I once heard someone say that the grains are high in phytic acid too and we've been eating  grains for thousands of years.  True,  we also have a high amount of cancer and disease that other civilizations didn't have, but, of course we spread our disease and pestilence throughout the world as well as our  way of life and eating grains, and all those healthy people we came across  are now eating our grains and have the same diseases and problems we do. I guess comparing it to grains wasn't such a good idea was it?
     After looking at all the facts, I would have to conclude that soy is probably not that great for cancer and may even help cause it.  Look out for those studies that are backed  from people with an agenda, you most likely will not get the full truth.  Looking for the truth is not easy it takes a lot of work  and a lot of research in many different areas and then using your brain to put two and two together to figure things out that others have not.
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Joseph A. Moylan
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