THIS ARTICLE IS THRU THE KIND COURTESY OF MS SUREKHA RAMCHANDANI, ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA...
All Males - PLEASE pass this info to all your female friends... It may
save their lives!Something to take note of. 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 and 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 isoflavones, 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 flushes. 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
dec! ided 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 fiance 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 in 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 these problems. I never once thought it could be all the
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
health food when in fact it is only a toxic by-product of the
vegetable oil industry. This was insane, after all, the health and
fitness magazines had ! said&nbs p; nothing about soya being harmful.
I visited a 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 who 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, haven't 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.
check the attached link too for more information..
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/aug/13/foodanddrink
http://www.patrickholford.com/content.asp?id_Content=1415
