Whoa!!
Check out this article on soy!! Was I shocked or what? However, I was suspicious that soy would not be good for someone with my female problems stemming from too much estrogen: But get a load of this article as there's a lot more to this soy thing than just estrogen: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/08/13/CMGJKK1BP31.DTL&type=health
The author confirms my suspicion about the estrogen issue. Too much estrogen leads to cancers and to my problem, menoragghia. Sure just don't drink soy milk or eat tofu. I just wish it were that simple. Soy has slipped its little green claws into just about everything we consume, that is when it comes to processed foods. Something that can be made into just about everything could not really be that good for you. Originally, soy beans were used as a ferilizer in China until it was discovered that fermenting them made them edible. And we know how that came about. Originally even they did not eat them, but because of certain toxins in them, that protected them from predators, they were probably grown in and around the edible crops to keep away birds, etc. In addition, allowing the beans to decay and using them around edible crops probably did help as well. No, the eating of soy probably came as a result of a famine in which starving families had to eat whatever they could find. Necessity is the mother of invention and this is it. China, historically speaking, has suffered many famines, and one could argue that it is better to eat something potentially harmful than to starve to death. The current soy craze is a push by vegetarians to push their own anti-business, anti-eating animals onto the American public. No doubt groups like PETA help this along. Yet we may be harming ourselves. Just because it is a plant does not mean that it is good for us and will cure everything. Yep, those dead animals might be the better still. They were for our ancestors. I just wonder how many women out there with cancer have cancer, not because they didn't use enough soy products, but because they did. France and Israel both have apparently issued public health warnings particularly for women and children as you will see in the article. Hey, and what about those Frenchmen, eating their eggs in souffles, using cream, and eating brie (how about triple creme too), and drinking wine. By American standards they should all be dead from heart attacks. :) Maybe they know something we don't.
Honestly, I will be sticking to my dairy, real dairy, just like those Frenchmen, and my real animal flesh. Admittedly, I may, in the near future, find myself eating red meat only occasionally, with most of my diet consisting of fish and chicken (happy chickens :))
And soy products or by-products end up in pet foods. Personally, my own daughter has been on this nutritional crusade for her pet ferrets, Twinkie and Bear. I like them but I'd rather not have them around, seeing as I am the one that cleans up after them. But on the internet, she found out a bunch of information about ferret food. I only wish she were as concerned about her own diet. Still she has a point. I have been thinking about my best buddy's diet, and cat food is a nightmare. I really don't have that much experience with dogs, but I am sure it is similar. I had never really paid attention to it before, but after having read articles about pets getting to be overweight, I began looking at the ingredients labels of various cat foods. Nipper eats, and has been verrrry content, with Purina One, with the pink label stating that it contained real salmon and tuna. For the price, I guess one cannot argue that that might not be a bad deal. Except that salmon and tuna, real salmon and tuna, are 13th and 14th on the list. The first thing on the ingredients list is "chicken by products". Other, very expensive brands, are not much better. Often the first ingredient is "chicken meal" or "fish meal". Then guess what? Lots of corn meal. If it is second or third in the list, it is pretty accurate to say that there is quite a bit of corn meal in the diet. I don't know about you, but I have yet to see a cat eat corn muffins or corn bread. Left to themselves, in the right environment, domestic cats will go for fresh birdie or mousie any day. Their diet requires extremely amounts of proteins, and what they are getting fed is a high carb diet. From what I have seen, canned cat foods are not much better. I can see why articles like this appear. I will say that Nipper is not overweight, she is just about right. But I also notice that she does not eat alot.
She nibbles her dry cat food, which, by the way, I am in the process of changing. Purina One has just recently come out with something so much better: Purina One now has something called Natural Blends, and nicely enough, chicken is the most important and first ingredient. While we are working on that change over, I also discovered that our local supermarkets are stocking an all organic cat food, called By Nature Organic which lists either fish or organic chicken as the primary ingredients. No chicken by products and the remaining in gredients are all organic. It may not be necessary to do everything organic, but that looks a lot better than "chicken by products"--that is ground up chicken beaks and claws, and god only knows what else.
What else? Well, I am glad I don't have to feel guilty about not gettin my soy in. And today, diet wise was a reasonably good day for me. We had celery and herbed cream cheese for a snack, I had a cup of herb tea, and for dinner we had a nice salad and crustless quiche--with broccoli, cheese, and bacon. Yummy!!! I did try to go out to walk and discovered that I could not make it around like I did yesterday. So as yesterday I did 2.6 miles, I could only do 3/4 of a mile today. Need to set some goals.
The author confirms my suspicion about the estrogen issue. Too much estrogen leads to cancers and to my problem, menoragghia. Sure just don't drink soy milk or eat tofu. I just wish it were that simple. Soy has slipped its little green claws into just about everything we consume, that is when it comes to processed foods. Something that can be made into just about everything could not really be that good for you. Originally, soy beans were used as a ferilizer in China until it was discovered that fermenting them made them edible. And we know how that came about. Originally even they did not eat them, but because of certain toxins in them, that protected them from predators, they were probably grown in and around the edible crops to keep away birds, etc. In addition, allowing the beans to decay and using them around edible crops probably did help as well. No, the eating of soy probably came as a result of a famine in which starving families had to eat whatever they could find. Necessity is the mother of invention and this is it. China, historically speaking, has suffered many famines, and one could argue that it is better to eat something potentially harmful than to starve to death. The current soy craze is a push by vegetarians to push their own anti-business, anti-eating animals onto the American public. No doubt groups like PETA help this along. Yet we may be harming ourselves. Just because it is a plant does not mean that it is good for us and will cure everything. Yep, those dead animals might be the better still. They were for our ancestors. I just wonder how many women out there with cancer have cancer, not because they didn't use enough soy products, but because they did. France and Israel both have apparently issued public health warnings particularly for women and children as you will see in the article. Hey, and what about those Frenchmen, eating their eggs in souffles, using cream, and eating brie (how about triple creme too), and drinking wine. By American standards they should all be dead from heart attacks. :) Maybe they know something we don't.
Honestly, I will be sticking to my dairy, real dairy, just like those Frenchmen, and my real animal flesh. Admittedly, I may, in the near future, find myself eating red meat only occasionally, with most of my diet consisting of fish and chicken (happy chickens :))
And soy products or by-products end up in pet foods. Personally, my own daughter has been on this nutritional crusade for her pet ferrets, Twinkie and Bear. I like them but I'd rather not have them around, seeing as I am the one that cleans up after them. But on the internet, she found out a bunch of information about ferret food. I only wish she were as concerned about her own diet. Still she has a point. I have been thinking about my best buddy's diet, and cat food is a nightmare. I really don't have that much experience with dogs, but I am sure it is similar. I had never really paid attention to it before, but after having read articles about pets getting to be overweight, I began looking at the ingredients labels of various cat foods. Nipper eats, and has been verrrry content, with Purina One, with the pink label stating that it contained real salmon and tuna. For the price, I guess one cannot argue that that might not be a bad deal. Except that salmon and tuna, real salmon and tuna, are 13th and 14th on the list. The first thing on the ingredients list is "chicken by products". Other, very expensive brands, are not much better. Often the first ingredient is "chicken meal" or "fish meal". Then guess what? Lots of corn meal. If it is second or third in the list, it is pretty accurate to say that there is quite a bit of corn meal in the diet. I don't know about you, but I have yet to see a cat eat corn muffins or corn bread. Left to themselves, in the right environment, domestic cats will go for fresh birdie or mousie any day. Their diet requires extremely amounts of proteins, and what they are getting fed is a high carb diet. From what I have seen, canned cat foods are not much better. I can see why articles like this appear. I will say that Nipper is not overweight, she is just about right. But I also notice that she does not eat alot.
She nibbles her dry cat food, which, by the way, I am in the process of changing. Purina One has just recently come out with something so much better: Purina One now has something called Natural Blends, and nicely enough, chicken is the most important and first ingredient. While we are working on that change over, I also discovered that our local supermarkets are stocking an all organic cat food, called By Nature Organic which lists either fish or organic chicken as the primary ingredients. No chicken by products and the remaining in gredients are all organic. It may not be necessary to do everything organic, but that looks a lot better than "chicken by products"--that is ground up chicken beaks and claws, and god only knows what else.
What else? Well, I am glad I don't have to feel guilty about not gettin my soy in. And today, diet wise was a reasonably good day for me. We had celery and herbed cream cheese for a snack, I had a cup of herb tea, and for dinner we had a nice salad and crustless quiche--with broccoli, cheese, and bacon. Yummy!!! I did try to go out to walk and discovered that I could not make it around like I did yesterday. So as yesterday I did 2.6 miles, I could only do 3/4 of a mile today. Need to set some goals.
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