Soy
Soy formula milk (SFM) is used in place of breast milk and cow’s formula milk by some mothers (about 2%) in the UK and by nearly one-quarter of mothers in North America. Babies fed with (SFM) gain weight normally but there is concern that this feeding may expose the baby to abnormally high levels of ‘oestrogens. This is because soya beans contain very high levels of chemicals called isoflavones, which are phytoestrogens (literally, plant made chemicals that mimic the female sex hormone, oestradiol. There have been studies showing that numerous different thyroid problems have developed in individuals consuming a large amount of soy in their diet. Further research has shown that long term use of soy products can result in thyroid tumors. There are clear warnings that that isoflavones, a flavanoid found in soy, should never to 25 milligrams (the FDA’s maximum safe amount) in any one day. This is easy to reach with a big glass of soy milk or soy yogurt. We also must realize that soy isoflavones is in almost everything
FROM HYBRIDS, TO FOOD IRRADIATION, TO GMOS: What’s Left to Eat?
The process of hybridization of food began when humans first began to cultivate the wild foods that grew in their environments. Hybridization became more sophisticated over the years as humans noticed certain traits in foods and in order to enhance those traits began to selectively breed plants with other plants, within the same genus. (This process was also occurring in the animal kingdom. Most of the animals that surround human lifestyles are domesticated from their wild cousins: cows, dogs, chickens, cats, turkeys, etc.) Desirable traits in plants often include greater and more consistent size, sweeter, more pronounced taste, smaller or no seeds, brighter colors. Most of the foods that we consume today have been through the selective breeding process to produce familiar foods. These include most vegetables, like potatoes, corn, tomatoes, apples, carrots, broccoli, rice, all greens, cauliflower, as well as most of the animal foods consumed.
The process of selective breeding for desirable traits began the subtle alteration of the DNA of the foods. Minor changes in gene sequence and structure that allows for the desirable traits activate or deactivate the genes for the traits of the occurrence of the organism in nature.
The subtle alteration of the DNA of the food that humans consume will affect subtle alteration of the DNA of those consuming the food. This happens when the food is broken down into cellular and subcellular components and then in some cases is restructured to the configuration that the body can use. In other cases the cellular and subcellular components are easily bioassimilable. When these components are less than optimal, they may be usable by the body, but important components are missing. This causes the cells to mitosis daughter cells that look identical but have subtle flaws in their gene sequences. Thus begins the slow decline, the degeneration or devolution of a people into a less conscious, less connected, less aware state.