Thank you

[hel_ana]

Thank you to everyone who came out to the party this evening. I had a wonderful time, and really enjoyed having you all in my home. Thank you to Amy for the bounty of food. Thank you to Carolyn and Sam for the book and the bamboo, Rafe and Kim for the touch stones, Marcie and Eric for the book, Angel and Bob for the card (for the record, it was leaning towards the sinful, thank you ;) ), and Lee Lee for the flowers. All were greatly appreciated.

And thank you to my wonderful husband, for giving me exactly what I was hoping for.

Comments

[eve2007.livejournal.com]

We had a wonderful time!!!!

Thank you!!

[squarewave.livejournal.com]

Thank you for the great time.Sorry I was not more,um,talkative,but I think that you may know why:/

[nickdangerous.livejournal.com]

Off topic: Ross says you have some spooky info on soy products. Do tell!

[hel_ana]

There's a good list of links here.

Bottom line? Soy has a lot of substances in it that, while broken down during fermentation, aren't good for you unless they're broken down.

Other bottom line: a lot (and I mean a lot) of money is spent by the soy lobby on studies "proving" that soy is fantastic for people. The independant research is considerably less conclusive. If all of an industries positive evidence comes from paid sources, I have a concern about that industry.

For me, I don't deliberately eat soy products because I have concerns about the effects of it on my thyroid supplementation. Of course, it's hard to avoid completely, since any processed food you pick up is likely to have soy in it, usually in the form of lethecin.

Some highlites from that website:

- The compounds that soy contains include: phytates, which block the body's uptake of minerals; enzyme inhibitors, which hinder protein digestion; and haemaggluttin, which causes red blood cells to clump together and inhibits oxygen take-up and growth. Most controversially of all, soy contains high levels of the phytoestrogens (also known as isoflavones) genistein and daidzein, which mimic and sometimes block the hormone oestrogen.

- a 1998 study showed that a Japanese man typically eats about 8g (2 tsp) a day, nothing like the 220g (8oz) that a Westerner could put away by eating a big chunk of tofu and two glasses of soy milk

- a recent study on Japanese-Americans living in Hawaii showed that men who had eaten two or more servings of tofu a week during mid-life not only had 'accelerated brain ageing', and more than twice the incidence of Alzheimer's and dementia, but also looked five years older than those men who didn't.

[nickdangerous.livejournal.com]

Yep... I've read it thoroughly and have decided to cut unfermented soy consumption. No soymilk machine for yours truly. I'm putting the money towards a juicer instead.

Have you enjoyed reading Dr. Mercola's web pages?

[hel_ana]

I read it, like pretty much everything on the web, with a grain of salt.

But there are some interesting resources there. I've mainly been concerned with the thyroid stuff.

[nickdangerous.livejournal.com]

He isn't my only source of information, but he is my most conservative one. Dr. Weil, by comparison, embraces a "good 'nuff" approach. I'm an OCD-type, so I lean towards the extreme solutions.