Beliefs For Sale

We’d like to believe that what we believe represents the truth. What if it doesn’t?

A couple of days ago, a friend e -mailed me a link to an article headlined “This ‘Beloved’ Food Can Cause Allergic Reactions For Years – and Infertility For Generations.” This food in question: soy. I consume a lot of it.   The link went to a respected and frequented web site of a doctor heralded for his holistic healing views. He summarizes things he read elsewhere and then adds his own two cents about it.

So is it true? Is getting the masses to believe (unfermented) soy is a health food a “perfect example of how a brilliant marketing strategy can fool millions,” as the Doc maintains. The Doc goes on to say that “the risks of consuming unfermented soy products far outweigh the possible benefits . . . [there are] thousands of studies linking soy to malnutrition, digestive distress, immune-system breakdown, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders and infertility – even cancer and heart disease.” Could soy even be responsible for the U.S. national deficit, the radiation scare in Japan, and the reason that Finnish girl in that beer bar in Helsinki on New Year’s Eve in 1991 went home with someone else?

[Click the picture to read the rest of this kick ass article]

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