Comments on: Soy, Toxins, Fast Food, and Fat

By: Wednesday 3/17/10 « Grapevine CrossFit

Wednesday 3/17/10 « Grapevine CrossFit — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:09:14 +0000

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By: April

April — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:23:51 +0000

I agree that fake soy foods are quite scary and pretty much harmful to the body. Plus the fact that an average person normally consumes almost a liter of soft drinks daily is a total horror. That’s why obesity, cancer and other chronic diseases thrive 10 times as much as used to years ago when processed food was not invented yet. Great article and great ideas!

By: Kalvin Chinyere

Kalvin Chinyere — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 20:41:42 +0000

Great post and comments! Soy was addressed well.I totally agree that we should stop subsidizing corn production, but I also agree that we should tax fast foods. Not all fast foods involve corn and corn derivatives.Coming from Atlanta, one of my favorite fast foods are Chick-Fil-A’s Chicken Sandwiches, which are fried in peanut oil, not corn or vegetable oil.All Americans including myself have a right to eat whatever we want, but we should have to pay extra taxes to of set the health care costs that eating nutrition poor foods create.The taxes and increased costs would also force poor Americans to think twice before purchasing nutrition poor foods. Poor Americans can least afford the chronic diseases that eating poorly eventually lead to.

By: Misti

Misti — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 03:09:55 +0000

Thanks for this very informative article! The information you included is exactly why I’ve decided to grow a little garden this year and shop at farmer’s markets. Besides making these choices to lose weight, natural grown food with no extra additives tastes a lot better.

By: skustes

skustes — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:52:46 +0000

I suppose we’ll just have to agree to disagree here. I feel that there are lots of things that are in soybeans that you wouldn’t want in your soy milk, soy yogurt, or tofu that only fermentation deals with (phytates, enzyme inhibitors, and such).CheersScott

By: thania

thania — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 08:11:27 +0000

The problem with soy is that most of them are altered MONSANTO monopoly on it.Apart from omega 6, my main concerne is that soy has phytohormones that are very similar to our own natural hormes, and do compete for the active sustrate in our body resulting in malfunction of many glands as thyroids and ovary …etc.On the other hand once fermented like miso, not only is delicious but beneficial…

By: 03/12/10 – Strength & Sprints – Day 12

03/12/10 – Strength & Sprints – Day 12 — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:13:51 +0000

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By: Mike OD

Mike OD — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 02:14:49 +0000

I am not a vegetarian, so probably not going to be a major proponent of soy…and from everything I read, it will be an ongoing battle between “it’s good” and “it’s evil”. If it is processed, then I am not interested in it nor do I believe it to be healthier than a more natural option. If you can make it yourself (such as almond milk as described above), then its probably the best option.There is also a billion $ industry behind products made from isolated soy, so you know there will always be a strong push to make it look healthy in the public’s eye. Read enough studies and you know most can be biased and made to whatever outcome the people funding it want.I would also ask people why they choose soy. If it is because “saturated fat is bad” (from animals) then they really should research that more in depth…as even now it is coming out in nutritional journals that there is NO real connection between increases in saturated fat and increases in heart disease (and cholesterol myth is hopefully soon to follow….although with billions in stake for Lipitor, that will be harder to get out there). If anything Sat fat only helps make the big fluffy particle LDL (not harmful) and not the small dense (really bad) LDL that elevates with a low fat diet (since that usually means higher carbs from processed grains/sugars and elevated triglycerides as well).Also if people choose soy because people in Asia eat it (and assume they are healthier from it), you also have to look at all the other factors in their diet such as higher intakes of fish and a more balanced Omega 3:6 ratio (which you can also get from natural meat, grass fed….not grain fed), plus a slower paced lifestyle and probably lack of other processed foods/sugars in their diet. Add more processed foods, vegetable oils and sugar into that diet, and I’m sure you will see rapid increases in heart diseases and cancers.Lastly you have to ask yourself if what you are eating/drinking is the same thing to any other culture you are comparing intake and health to. Is it prepared, heated, treated, fermented, etc….all the same ways? If it is not, then it is not the same food. Many cultures still persist on diets of soy, grains, beans but it also involves long processes of soaking and fermentation. I don’t think there are any religious reasons for this long preparation, so it must be for a good nutritional reason that was figured out and passed down through the generations. What you find in a store is not going to be the same as what you find on those people’s plates (unless it was prepared in the same fashion of course…but costly and longer processing times is not what many processed food industries are about).In the end….we all want the same thing….many ways to health….many foods to choose from….the least processed, the better….everything in moderation…..people have a right to choose whether or not to eat meat…..but also “real natural” meat isn’t so evil as it is made out to be and fattened meat from sick grain-fed animals is not natural either. We just need to do our own research, come up with our own answers, and never listen to anything advertised on TV (as we all should strive to maintain our intellectual independence). I’ll share a cold beer with a vegetarian anytime.

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:41:00 +0000

As I said in my comment above just now, soymilk isn’t bad — it’s just ground up soybeans soaked in water. Almond milk is made the same way. There’s nothing wrong with these foods — in fact, I’d prefer them over dairy any day.Of course, eating the actual almonds or soybeans is better, and soymilk or almond milk alone won’t get you the nutrients and fiber you need, but there’s nothing wrong with them.

By: Leo

Leo — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:38:36 +0000

I agree about soy hot dogs and the like, but soymilk is usually just soybeans ground up and then soaked in water. It’s really not bad for you, and things made from soymilk (natural soy yogurt, tofu) aren’t bad either — they contain good nutrients and protein.It’s possible to make these things just using extracted soy protein, which I wouldn’t eat, but if they use natural processes (as I described above) there’s nothing in soymilk that’s not in soy beans.