Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Canadian organic soybean farmers, and they paid them a decent price - $16 to $21 a bushel - for these organic soybeans. Well, now that Dean Foods has bought out Silk, they are starting to import cheap, so-called organic soybeans from China, where the workers are treated like slaves and organic standards are dubious. Or, they are importing soybeans from Brazil where there is a huge uproar over the fact that people are whacking down the Amazon - the lungs of the planet - in order to plant export crops, specifically soybeans, to export. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Miso
Miso is a soybean paste that has been a mainstay of Japanese cooking since the seventh century. It's made by mixing cooked soybeans with salt, a grain, and a fermenting agent called koji. There are many varieties of miso; hacho miso is made only from soybeans, and natto miso is made from ginger and soybeans. Most of the others are made from soybeans and a grain.
Despite my reservations about soy in general, there is a lot of research on the benefits of some soy protein in the diet, and miso would be one way to get soy protein in your diet from a healthy traditional food. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Canadian organic soybean farmers, and they paid them a decent price -- $16 to $21 a bushel -- for these organic soybeans. Well, now that Dean Foods has bought out Silk, they are starting to import cheap, so-called organic soybeans from China, where the workers are treated like slaves and organic standards are dubious. Or, they are importing soybeans from Brazil where there is a huge uproar over the fact that people are whacking down the Amazon -- the lungs of the planet -- in order to plant export crops, specifically soybeans, to export. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Even worse, they use soybean because it's high in protein. They'll use soybean in dog food. If you see soybean in your dog food, run. Dogs are missing an amino acid, which they need to break down and convert soybean into protein. All soybean does is create gas in the digestive system. It can actually cause a deadly condition called bloat, where the intestines swell up and twist over each other. This is fatal to dogs.
Mike: It blows my mind, when I'm looking at pet food in the grocery store, and I see these vegetarian pet foods. As a human, I'm vegetarian, and a lot of people are vegetarians. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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 In any case, it was during this period and in the centuries that followed that both soybean cultivation and soybean fermentation techniques spread through the south of China toward Korea, Japan, and other parts of Southeast Asia, where inhabitants appreciated the relative ease of soybean culture, as well as the exceptional nutritious and medicinal properties of the beans. Even today, the consumption of soybeans and foods derived from them plays an integral part in the culinary traditions of Asian countries. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Also, more information has appeared regarding the environmental impact of soybean farming (the Amazon rainforest is being devastated by clear cutting to create soybean agricultural lands) as well as the frightening fact that most soybeans grown today are genetically modified (GMO) varieties.
On top of this, most popular soy milk brands (I won't name names, but these are likely the ones in your grocery store) have been bought out by big, profit-seeking food and beverage corporations, and as a result, they've been sugared up and made nutritionally inferior. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| They'll use soybean in dog food. If you see soybean in your dog food, run. Dogs are missing an amino acid, which they need to break down and convert soybean into protein. All soybean does is create gas in the digestive system. It can actually cause a deadly condition called bloat, where the intestines swell up and twist over each other. This is fatal to dogs.
Mike: It blows my mind, when I'm looking at pet food in the grocery store, and I see these vegetarian pet foods. As a human, I'm vegetarian, and a lot of people are vegetarians. That's fine for a human, but for a pet? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Also, more information has appeared regarding the environmental impact of soybean farming (the Amazon rainforest is being devastated by clear cutting to create soybean agricultural lands) as well as the frightening fact that most soybeans grown today are genetically modified (GMO) varieties.
On top of this, most popular soy milk brands (I won't name names, but these are likely the ones in your grocery store) have been bought out by big, profit-seeking food and beverage corporations, and as a result, they've been sugared up and made nutritionally inferior. |
Richard Beliveau, Ph.D. and Denis Gingras, Ph.D.
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| In any case, it was during this period and in the centuries that followed that both soybean cultivation and soybean fermentation techniques spread through the south of China toward Korea, Japan, and other parts of Southeast Asia, where inhabitants appreciated the relative ease of soybean culture, as well as the exceptional nutritious and medicinal properties of the beans. Even today, the consumption of soybeans and foods derived from them plays an integral part in the culinary traditions of Asian countries. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 The effects of 30 grams of soybeans fed daily for 1-3 months to 37 healthy adults were investigated. soybean consumption resulted in a significant increase in TSH levels, although levels remained within normal limits. Other measured parameters of thyroid function were unchanged; however, hypometabolic symptoms suggestive of a functional thyroid hormone deficiency (malaise, constipation, sleepiness) and goiters appeared in half the subjects who consumed soybeans for three months. Symptoms disappeared one month after cessation of soybean ingestion. |
Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews
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 Modified Corn Starch, Salt, Citric Acid, Atrificial Flavor and Certified Food Color Red #40, Blue #1), High Gluten Flour, Unenriched Bleached Flour, Butter, Margarine (Partially Hydrogenated soybean Oil,_Soybean Oil, Water, Salt, Mono- And Diglycerides, Lecithin, Sodium Benzoate, Beta Carotene, Vitamin A Palmitate), Eggs, Unbleached Wheat^/ Flour, Partially Hydrogenated Soybeans and Cottonseed Oils. Cornstarch, Lemon Juice, Water, Artificial Vanilla Flavor, Cinnamon and Confectioners Sugar.
Contains wheat, milk and soy.
And look here... of glucose. |
Bill Sardi
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 However, researchers did discover a marked reduction in breast cancer risk with increasing consumption of miso soup, which is made from soybean paste. The incidence of breast cancer dropped from 109.7 to 57.2 per 1 00,000 Japanese women when they increased their miso soup consumption from one to three cups a day. [Journal National Cancer Institute 95: 906-13, 2003] It is obvious that the hot water in soup making produced a hot-water extract of the soy isoflavones which produced the health benefits.
1 cup miso soup (soybean paste)
3 cups miso soup (soybean paste)
109. |
Andreas Moritz
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 The problem with the legume soybean is even more pronounced than that found with other legumes or grains. With regard to soy products' production, there needs to be a balance between the amount of heat necessary to destroy the enzyme inhibitors while still preserving some nutritional properties of the soy. That balance is impossible to achieve. Most commercially available edible-grade soybean products retain 5 to 20 percent of the enzyme inhibitor activity (for trypsin) originally present in the raw soybeans from which they were prepared. In addition, most of their nutrients are destroyed. |
| Today, these genetically modified soybean products, which comprise about 80 percent of the beans available, have been found in most baby formulas including Carnation, Similac, Enfamil, Isomil, and Neocare as well as Doritos, Fritos, vegetable oils, soybean oil, margarine, and much more. With soy now being an ingredient of thousands of common food products, the masses are systematically poisoned with harmful herbicides.
One of the genes used in the new soybean is derived from the petunia plant, which is a nightshade variety. This is bad news for people with nightshade-induced arthritis. |
The Complete Book of Alternative NutritionSelene Y. Craig, Jennifer Haigh, Sari Harrar and the Editors of PREVENTION Magazine Health Books
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| Strong-tasting and strong-smelling, this fermented soybean product is often eaten as a side dish.
Soybeans. Either yellow or black, soybeans are very sweet and go well with rice and casseroles. Yellow soybeans are best if cooked with kombu.
Tempeh. This fermented soybean product comes in a compacted cake of stuck-together beans. It has a mushroom-like aroma and is chewy and light.
Tofu. Processed soybeans shaped into a white cake and stored in cold water, tofu has very little taste of its own but readily absorbs other flavors. |
Michael Pollan
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 The ancient Asian practice of fermenting soybeans and eating soy in the form of curds called tofu makes a healthy diet from a plant that eaten almost any other way would make people ill. The soybean itself is a notably inauspicious staple food; it contains a whole assortment of "antinutrients"—compounds that actually block the body's absorption of vitamins and minerals, interfere with the hormonal system, and prevent the body from breaking down the proteins in the soy itself. It took the food cultures of Asia to figure out how to turn this unpromising plant into a highly nutritious food. |
Bill Sardi
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| Which is more healthful: soybeans or soybean paste soup?
An interesting study recently was conducted in Japan, a country known for its soy consumption and low rate of breast cancer. When Japanese researchers finished analyzing the results of a survey of 209,354 persons regarding their soy consumption, it was found that soy foods did not confer a reduction in breast cancer risk, but frequent consumption of miso soup did. With each bowl of miso soup consumed on a daily basis there was a greater reduction in breast cancer risk. But miso is soy. What's the difference? |
National Women's Health Network
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 Different particle sizes of soybeans (usually made from defatted soybean flakes).
• Soymilk. A milk substitute made from cooked soybeans. American varieties may contain various flavorings.
• Soy protein concentrate. Usually contains 65 percent protein. Prepared from defatted soybeans and used in many commercially prepared soy products. phytoestrogens—estrogens that occur in soybeans and other plants—to help counteract the fluctuations of her own estrogen that were causing the hot flashes. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| It's made from soybeans fermented by the Bacillus natto, which result in a soybean that's sticky and can be rather... well, strong smelling. That's one reason it's not exactly an American favorite. Nonetheless, natto—also known as "vegetable cheese"—has been consumed safely for thousands of years due to its health benefits.
Its claim to fame is its richness in an enzyme called nattokinase. Nattokinase is a fibrinolytic enzyme that can help reduce and prevent clots. The way it works is this: The body produces a number of substances that assist in blood clotting, one of which is called fibrin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One was a fish oil vitamin that had like 10 milligrams of fish oil extract and the rest of it was soybean oil. That is amazing.
Dr. Liers: Often you find it's genetically modified soybean oil, as well.
Mike: Right. Let us wrap up the pet supplement section here. Do you have any other comments on that?
Dr. Liers: Our red line is core supplements. Our blue line is for specific conditions. We have in the blue line Diabetes Defense, Joint Health Formula, and Allergy Defense, which are for major conditions. Then for gastrointestinal discomfort, we offer 'GI Defense. It is a very unique formula. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| If you see soybean in your dog food, run. Dogs are missing an amino acid, which they need to break down and convert soybean into protein. All soybean does is create gas in the digestive system. It can actually cause a deadly condition called bloat, where the intestines swell up and twist over each other. This is fatal to dogs.
Mike: It blows my mind, when I'm looking at pet food in the grocery store, and I see these vegetarian pet foods. As a human, I'm vegetarian, and a lot of people are vegetarians. That's fine for a human, but for a pet? They have got to have some meat. |
Jonathan Goodman ND
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 In a 3-week study, intensive care patients were given either soybean oil, a 50-50 combination of soybean oil and MCTs, or a "cocktail" that consisted of 50 percent soybean oil, 42.5 percent MCTs, and 7.5 percent black currant oil.12 The patients who were given the soybean oil-MCTs combination had much higher levels of EFAs in their bodies than did those taking soybean oil alone.
MCTs have been reputed to provide a quick source of energy, which is why the supplements have become popular among some athletes. However, the research on performance enhancement using MCTs is not convincing. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Most commercially available edible-grade soybean products retain 5 to 20 percent of the enzyme inhibitor activity (for trypsin) originally present in the raw soybeans from which they were prepared. In addition, most of their nutrients are destroyed. Recently, the parents of twins were imprisoned for committing involuntary manslaughter of their babies. They fed the twins soy milk, which starved them to death. Soy products (unless properly fermented for several years) have a toxic effect on the body, and should not be consumed on a regular basis, if at all. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Try that with a kernel of corn or a soybean. Nope, those oils must be "extracted," a process that destroys much of their nutrients.
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As a brief refresher course for Phase 1, before we move to a discussion of plateaus and the role of exercise in weight loss, let me remind you that oils from soybeans and corn didn't exist before your parents were born. Further, the more the original food has been altered, the less you should eat it. Finally, the more you extend a food's shelf life, the more it will shorten your life. |
Bill Sardi
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| Which is more healthful: soybeans or soybean paste soup? ... 434 Tea: hot water extraction ... 434 Alcohol or water extracts? ... 435 Olive washings... 435 Wine: an extract from grapes ... 435 Red wine pills ... 436
Preserving red wine molecules in pills... 436 Cruciferous vegetables and cancer ... 437 Artemisia ... 439 Tea and cancer... 440
Drawbacks of green tea ... 443
How to make green tea capsules work for you ... 443
Other teas... 444 Curcumin for cancer... 444 Medicinal mushrooms... 445
Profits or cures? ... 446
Dietary mushrooms and cancer... |
Andreas Moritz
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| Cream of broccoli soup can have a bacteria gene in it, and salad dressing is most likely made with canola oil, vegetable oil or soybean oil (all genetically engineered). The tobacco gene is now used in lettuce and cucumbers and the petunia gene is used in soybeans and carrots. If you have celiac disease, you may need to avoid walnuts because they can have the barley gene in them. Even strawberries are not harmless anymore; they can now have "undisclosed genes" in them, so you will never know what else you are getting when you treat yourself to this delicious fruit. |
Gabriel Cousens
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 Daniel writes in The Whole Soy Story:
Allergic reactions occur not only when soy is eaten but when soybean flour or dust is inhaled. Among epidemiologists, soybean dust is known as an "epidemic asthma agent." From 1981 [to] 1987, soy dust from grain silo unloading in the harbor caused 26 epidemics of asthma in Barcelona, seriously affecting 687 people and leading to 1,155 hospitalizations. No further epidemics occurred after filters were installed, but a minor outbreak in 1994 established the need for monitoring of preventive measures. |
Bill Sardi
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| Resveratrol from red wine differs from soybean phytoestrogens. The soybean-based plant hormones may increase some chemical pathways, known as Akt and FAK, that promote breast cancer cell survival and invasion, whereas red wine resveratrol inhibits the activity of both of these chemicals. [Journal Nutrition 132: 3482-89S, 2002]
Paclitaxel (Taxol) is a quite toxic chemotherapy drug, derived from the yew tree, which is intravenously administered to treat various forms of cancer. |
Elaine Magee
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 ENJOY BEANS AT THEIR BEST
The general recommendation is to eat beans several times a week, possibly taking the place of red meat (which lowers intake of saturated fat and cholesterol) and also serving as a source of folic acid (in lentils and pinto beans), fiber, and assorted phytochemicals (in soybeans and soybean products). Here are a few bean tips to get you started.
Canned beans save the day! Just open a can, rinse, and go. Otherwise, you'll probably be stuck soaking dry beans in water overnight and then boiling until tender. |
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