Soy shit?
As a vegetarian, Ali eats a TON of soy based products. Because I am married to a vegetarian, I wind up eating a lot of soy based products as well. The general consensus has been soy is the miracle food, a way to get your protein without consuming meat. Well after taking a look at this site I don’t feel very good about Ali or myself consuming lots of soy products. The site does not just condemn soy, it goes into GREAT detail about what makes it not good for you. Apparently parents that give their babies soy based formula are inadvertently giving them the equivalent of 5 birth control pills worth of estrogen in each bottle, ouch. I forwarded the site to Ali for her to check out. Being a dietitian I am sure she will initially dismiss my find as she feels I could not possibly offer her any nutritional information of any value. Well I certainly can’t make up her mind for her but it certainly will make me think much harder about the amount of soy based foods I eat.
Ali
Of course… I have looked into this in the past – this debate has been going on since soy kind-of went mainstream & I’m a member of the Vegetarian Dietitians practice group where it’s come up several times. What they are looking at is soy protein and the actual amount of soy protein in the products we eat isn’t that great. It’s an easy choice for me considering all the antibiotics, hormones, and cruelty that comes along with a carnivore diet. Toss it up – either way you’re getting a bunch of stuff that nature probably didn’t really intend. Shawn’s next blog post will be… I created a monster, now we’re only eating raw food… 🙂