Lifestyles Ideas Management - Soya

All girls out there beware of SOYA....

*Soya/Tofu lovers*
ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA... All Males-PLEASE pass this info to ALL your
female friends... It may save their lives!

This is my true story, nothing altered.
These are facts, as they relate to my experience, my opinions based on what I have read and felt. I am relating them to warn other young health-conscious women who are unwittingly harming themselves.

In 1989, I graduated from high school in Texas and couldn't wait to hit the big college city. One of the changes I wanted to make was to eat healthier. Once I moved to health conscious Austin, Texas, I began to fortify my body with the best and healthiest foods I could find.

Tofu was the main ingredient in every healthy dish and I bought Soya milk almost every
day used it for everything from cereal to smoothies or just to drink for a quick snack.
I bought Soya muffins, miso soup with tofu, soybeans, soybean, sprouts, etc.
All the literature in all the health and fitness magazines said that Soya protected
you against everything from heart disease to breast cancer.

It was the magical is flavones, the estrogen-like hormones that all worked
to help you stay young and healthy. I looked great, I was working out all the time, but
my menstrual cycle was off. At 20, I started taking birth control pills to regulate my
menstrual cycle.

In addition to this I began to suffer from painful periods. I began to get
puffy; it was as though I was losing my muscle tone. I began to suffer from depression and
getting hot flashes... I mistook all this for PMS since my periods were irregular. By
the time I was 25, my periods were so bad, I couldn't walk. The birth control pills never
made them regular or less painful so I decided to stop taking them.

I went on like this for another two years until I realized my pain wasn't
normal. At 27, my gynecologist found two cysts in my uterus. Both were the size of tennis
balls. I went through surgery to have them removed and thank God they were benign. The
gynecologist told me to go back on birth control pills. I didn't. In 1998, he discovered
a lump in my breast. Again, I went through surgery and again it was benign. In
November 2000 my glands swelled up and my gums became inflamed.
Thinking I had a tooth infection I went to the dentist who told me that teeth were not the problem.

After a dose of antibiotics the swelling still did not go down.

At this point I could feel a tiny nodule on the right side of my neck. I
told my mother I had thyroid trouble. She thought I was being silly. No one in the family
suffered from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch I saw a specialist who diagnosed me
with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. After a series of tests he told me it was
cancer. My fiancé and I sat stunned. We were not prepared and I was so scared. We
scheduled surgery right away.

The specialist told us that it would only be after the operation that a
pathologist would be able to tell us for sure if it was cancer. They found a tumor at my
right lobe composed of irregular cells and another smaller tumor growing on the
left, so the entire thyroid was removed. They told me that after undergoing
radioactive iodine I would be safe and assured me that I could live a long life.

After treatment I began to search for the cause of all t! These problems.
I never once thought it could be the entire Soya I had consumed for nearly ten years.
After all, Soya is healthy. I came upon a web page that linked thyroid problems to
Soya intake and the conspiracy of Soya marketed as a by-product of the vegetable oil
industry. This was insane; after all, the health and fitness magazines had said
nothing about Soya being harmful.

I visited an herbalist who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 1985. She informed me
that Soya was the culprit. She had a hysterectomy due to cysts and other uterine
problems. A few months later another acquaintance that had consumed Soya came
down with thyroid cancer.

A girl in England I met through the Internet in a thyroid cancer forum had just
undergone surgery and she was only 19. What was going on? Breast cancer is linked
to estrogen. What mimics estrogen in the female body, SOYA!

But I never suspected Soya because until now I never once found a single
article that stated Soya could be dangerous. Women who took Soya prior to thyroid
problems will continue to take it after if they are not aware of what Soya actually
does, what it contains and how it reacts in the female body. I think this is the reason
that women with thyroid cancer often develop breast cancer later.

My co-worker is big into Soya and I see her losing hair and gaining weight
despite a walking workout during her break and after work, and apples and oranges
for lunch. She just had cysts removed from her uterus too. I warned her to stay off
Soya. I referred her to websites but until it is on the evening news on all four
networks, women will suffer. Since the thyroidectomy, I do not touch Soya, have! Not
for two years.

Dear readers,
Please use my story in any way you can. There are so many young girls who
are consuming Soya because they think they are taking care of themselves, and
women taking Soya because they want to be healthy. It is so unfair that the
information about the dangers of Soya isn't more widely circulated. It is sad.
There are many out there who feel this way and it is a terrible blow when
you realize you are not as healthy as you thought and that the information that
you depended on was wrong.