Re: SOY, endocrin disrupters,learning disability,ADD,high level of aluminum......

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Hi Dede,

Good memory. Yes, my aluminum levels were moderate but mercury and

lead was high. Thanks for thinking of me here. I did drink a lot of

soy milk a few years ago...thinking I was being healthy! Hope you

and your Dad are hanging in there! Love, PH

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> PH ~ Was it you that said they had high aluminum

> in your heavy metals?????

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> Babies fed soy-based formula have 13,000 to

> 22,000 times more estrogen compounds in

> their blood than babies fed milk-based formula.

> Infants exclusively fed soy formula receive the

> estrogenic equivalent of at least five birth control

> pills per day.

> Male infants undergo a “testosterone surge†during

> the first few months of life, when testosterone

> levels may be as high as those of an adult male.

> During this period, baby boys are programmed

> to express male characteristics after puberty, not

> only in the development of their sexual organs

> and other masculine physical traits, but also in

> setting patterns in the brain characteristic of male

> behavior.

> In animals, studies indicate that phytoestrogens in

> soy are powerful endocrine disrupters. Soy infant

> feeding†" which floods the bloodstream with

> female hormones that inhibit testosterone†" cannot

> be ignored as a possible cause of disrupted

> development patterns in boys, including learning

> disabilities and attention deficit disorder. Male

> children exposed to DES, a synthetic estrogen,

> had testes smaller than normal on maturation

> and infant marmoset monkeys fed soy isoflavones

> had a reduction in testosterone levels up to 70

> percent compared to milk-fed controls.

> Almost 15 percent of white girls and 50 percent

> of African-American girls show signs of puberty,

> such as breast development and pubic hair,

> before the age of eight. Some girls are showing

> sexual development before the age of three.

> Premature development of girls has been linked

> to the use of soy formula and exposure to environmental

> estrogen-mimickers such as PCBs

> and DDE.

> Intake of phytoestrogens even at moderate levels

> during pregnancy can have adverse affects on

> the developing fetus and the timing of puberty

> later in life.

> 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. Toxic synthetic vitamin D2 is added to

> soy milk.

> Fragile proteins are over-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 to mask

> soy’s unpleasant taste.

> Soy foods contain high levels of aluminum, which

> is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.

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