Is it safe to drink soymilk? Please share your thoughts

Thanks Caution replied. HI Soya,

I received this message few days back. Take a look at it and be cautious in taking SOYA.

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 decided 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 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.