blreber.net link dump

• The Whole Soy Story

  tags: soy, health, fitness

  • • Soy is NOT a miracle food.
    • Soy is NOT the answer to world hunger
    • Soy is NOT a panacea.
    • Soy has NOT even been proven safe.
  • Hundreds of epidemiological, clinical and laboratory studies link soy to:

    Malnutrition Digestive distress Thyroid dysfunction Cognitive decline Reproductive disorders

    Infertility Birth defects Immune system breakdown Heart disease Cancer

• The Vegetarian Myth :: stumptuous.com

  tags: no_tag

  • Plant-based eaters who consume soy as a “healthy” staple/meat alternative risk serious health consequences, especially when consuming soy in significant amounts (as with soy milk, tofurkey, and the like).
  • Thus, she argues, by embracing and promoting an entirely plant-based lifestyle, well-meaning vegetarians inadvertently (and ironically) create a situation that is unsustainable, unhealthy, inappropriate for local ecosystems (e.g. attempting to grow prairie crops in regions that are actually forests), dependent on petroleum-based fertilizers and large corporations, and above all, ignorant of how biological systems actually work.

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