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Growing Up Vegetarian | Healthy and Green Living


Green Lifestyle  (tags: vegetarian, health, diet, misunderstandings, children, family life, nutrition )

Summer
- 327 days ago - care2.com
Vegetarians of all ages regularly encounter misunderstandings from well-meaning relatives and friends about the diet's nutritional value, especially as it affects growing children.
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Simone D. (843)
Tuesday December 16, 2008, 11:30 am
Thank you Summer.
 

Judy Cross (77)
Wednesday December 17, 2008, 12:47 pm
The biggest danger is reliance on unfermented soy products.
Confused About Soy?--Soy Dangers Summarized

* High levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc. Phytic acid in soy is not neutralized by ordinary preparation methods such as soaking, sprouting and long, slow cooking. High phytate diets have caused growth problems in children.
* Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders. In test animals soy containing trypsin inhibitors caused stunted growth.
* Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women.
* Soy phytoestrogens are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.
* Vitamin B12 analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body's requirement for B12.
* Soy foods increase the body's requirement for vitamin D.
* Fragile proteins are denatured during high temperature processing to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein.
* Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.
* Free glutamic acid or MSG, a potent neurotoxin, is formed during soy food processing and additional amounts are added to many soy foods.
* Soy foods contain high levels of aluminum which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.

The above soy dangers and our Myths & Truths About Soy are available in our Soy Alert! trifold brochure for mass distribution.

http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/index.html
 

Summer Skye (102)
Wednesday December 17, 2008, 2:46 pm
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Elderberry T. (190)
Wednesday December 17, 2008, 4:04 pm
I would not eat unfermented soya...in the east its always fermented usually eaten with seaweed ( a source of iodine) to counteract the effect on thyroid...
 
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