A lecture on how Sports Hydration and drinking duringa workout helps. PLEASE excuse the Video being Slow, The audio is what you want to be noting down.
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December 28, 2011
December 15, 2011
A NEW YEARS RESOLUTION - AN IDEA
This will make you mad. What I am about to say, will make you mad. I said it again. Normally, I don’t say things like this, because as a Nutritionist, you try not to offend any potential clients. But sometimes, things like this need to be said, for the better of everyone. Consider the following post “tough love” from me.
You are fat. If you aren’t fat, you don’t have to read this, but you may very well get what I’m talking about. Now, here is a list of the things that HAVE NOT made you fat:
Your genetics.
Your job.
Your kids.
Your work schedule.
Your Pets.
The UPA.
The economy.
Your husband/boyfriend/wife/girlfriend.
Your kids shuttle practice.
Your work deadlines.
Technology.
The holiday season.
People’s birthdays.
Your vacation.
Your pregnancy 2 years ago.
The amount of money you make.
The amount of time you have.
The Climate and your Allergies
The cost of a gym membership.
The cost of healthy food.
And on. And On. And ON….
Now, here is a list of the things that HAVE made you fat:
YOU.
That’s it. You are strictly to blame for where you are with your weight. Don’t blame anyone else, or anyTHING else. You are directly responsible for every little piece of cake you have put in your mouth, every beer you have chugged, every cheeseburger you have inhaled, every loaf of bread you have spread butter on, and every workout you have skipped. I am sure at first, you will take offense to this, because it is basically calling you out. But if you actually think about it, how exactly did any of the above reasons make youfat? Did your kids soccer practice make you have to go to the drive thru and order a value meal, or was it up to you to prepare before hand and make sure that wasn’t the end result? Did your work make you miss your workout because you stayed an extra 3 hours past 5 pm, or did YOU make you miss your workout because you wouldn’t take 15 minutes out of your day to make sure you “got it in”? For every reason you say you can’t drop the weight, there is 5 solutions. Sometimes it takes the realization that the only thing that is holding you back from being the “fit” you, that you want to be, is yourself. Let’s take for example, this holiday season. I will guarantee you that multiple people will be telling me that they aren’t coming to fitness camp because there is a holiday party they have to go to, or they can’t afford it right now (which is valid), or they like to hibernate in the winter, and they’ll pick it up in the New Year. I understand that there are holiday parties, but you could go get your workout in on your own. You don’t have to rely on someone else to work out. Everyone knows how to do jumping jacks and pushups and lunges. Do them on your own time. If you can’t afford it, same deal. Do what you know, on your own. Take accountability and be proactive. And third, you are not a bear. Bears hibernate. People do not. Every time you hibernate and don’t work out in the winter, it puts just a little bit more fat on your body, and makes you just a little bit more unhealthy, and will make it even harder to get to where you want to be ultimately.
I am sorry If I offended anyone, but sometimes as they say, “the truth hurts”. I hope it only stings for a second, until you realize, that there is truth to this truth, and you can decide to change what you are doing for the better, or you can keep getting fat. Don’t blame this on circumstances. Assess your circumstances, and find solutions to the road blocks. If you are driving cross country and a road is closed, do you cancel your trip? I would hope not. You find a route that works. That’s what you need to do with your overall health. Happy Holidays:)
November 18, 2011
Walking Burns More Fat than Running!
In this Video you learn how a Waist size could be the start of your DYING. Diabetes and Hypertension today are easily measured by waist Size. The are a few good Nutrition Tips that may help you start. Additionally I talk about how WALKING burns more FAT than running. TO loose weight, Drop your waist size, reduce your risk of Diabetes is all blended in this Video....If you love yourself go ahead and share this video with all your friends & loved ones.
November 15, 2011
1 in 5 are Killed because of Nutrition SUICIDE!!!
1 in 5 Indians are susceptible to Diabetes or Hypertension. Active Interventions of Lifestyle and Nutrition Management will save you. A three min video that will convince you to Change the way you think..CHANGE THE WAY YOU EAT IS THE NEXT STEP!
November 13, 2011
October 10, 2011
September 16, 2011
Why Fast Bowlers need more Nutrition in Cricket?
The first Video of a four part series of NUTRITION TIPS for Cricketers.
September 14, 2011
Sometimes an Active life is just not Enough!
An Indian Solider Has an active lifestyle. Then why is a latest survey done on Army Soliders saying they are overweight and with Cholesterol Problems. Watch my Video to realise that maybe DIET is the key to living healthy.
September 6, 2011
Hydration strategies for a Tennis player- What should you be Drinking and how much?
The tennis training diet should be focused on high-energy foods and appropriate hydration, timed appropriately before and after multiple competitions. The following guidelines help develop successful nutrition and hydration practices for players.
Beverages and foods that count toward daily water intake
• BEST: water, fitness waters, sport beverages, club soda, mineral water, and flavored water
• Very good: 100% fruit juices, lemonade, tomato and vegetable juices, low fat milk
• Good: raw fruits and vegetables
• So-so: soft drinks (diet soft drinks in moderation), decaffeinated coffee, yogurt
• Not so helpful: caffeinated beverages (coffee, tea, soda) and alcoholic beverages act as diuretics and do not count toward water intake
Why a Tennis Player should Invest in a Customised Sports Nutrition Program?
Mastering the execution of topnotch tennis tips are constantly on the minds of most competitive tennis players. What is the main factor that motivates athletes to consistently strive for perfection?
The answer is simple really...it is their 'Will to Win'.
Serious tennis competitors are always seeking the 'edge' or the 'niche' that will separate them from their opponents.
Staying ahead of the competition is of utmost importance to them and failure is not an option.
Is that a bit too extreme? I know, but...
...the truth is that tennis tips are valuable pointers for all levels of tennis.
Whether you are a beginner, an intermediate, or an advance player capitalizing on top notch tennis tips can significantly impact and enhance the foundation of your tennis skills and techniques.
Nutrition is an avenue that is thoroughly missed... whether on purpose or unknowingly, its something we can now help you fix.
Why Investing in a Nutritionist- IS WORTH MORE THAN GOLD ?
In this video, I explain the reasons you should be worried about the way you eat and why investing in a good nutritionist is the way forward.
May 23, 2011
SPORTS Drinks for an athelte? Are you sure
For the last decade I have worked in supplement Companies. We have been carefully formulating SPORTS drinks to enable the athlete a drink based on SCIENTIFIC principles and research. In fact I have helped designed a product called FASTCHARGE which was used in the GUINNESS WORLD RECORD of non-stop Aerobics of 26 hour.
CAN YOU imagine yourself workout for 26 hrs non-stop...
Thats what I am trying to do is educate coaches and trainers about - Why you need a sports Drink?
The above Documentary on DISCOVERY CHANNEL might just help your understanding.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Olnzk8lnd4c
If you want to avail of the expertise that has produced a few Olympic Champions, Guinness world records. Please get in touch with me at ryan@quahealth.com or ryanNutritioncoach on SKYPE. i will help you discover whether you really need a sports drink and which brand will suit you if it is required.
April 24, 2011
7 Golden Questions Your Nutritionist Should Ask before Making your Customised Plan.
Seven Golden Questions Your Nutritionist Should Ask You before Making a Customised Plan
In today’s world all that is written on Nutrition is from a consumer’s perspective. Consumers ask questions and experts answer them. With rising concerns for Nutritional and Life-style diseases more and more individuals are turning to Nutritionists to customise their diets.
Most of these interactions can be broadly categorized into
c) a healthy person wanting to take preventive action based on all the awareness in society today.
All three sets of people will turn ultimately to a Nutritionist for the planning and management of Food or Diet or Nutrition!
So if you are one of those people in the above categories, you will be turning to a nutritionist to guide you. Here are the questions they should be asking you? These seven golden questions will also help you determine if you nutritionist is truly customizing your diet plan or just working on a cut copy paste template from a manual, hospital chart or from a previous case. If they are not asking these questions, then maybe its time to get a better nutritionist. (You Can be sure the Nutritionists at this Site deliver the best Customised plans in the world)
These measurements are important to determine your Health. A qualified and dedicated Nutritionist will ensure calculation of your BMI or Body Mass Index. This Index is a measures weight in relation to height and the ensuring result will give you a figure. This number predicts or indicates an increased risk of developing High blood pressure, Heart disease, High blood cholesterol, Diabetes, Stroke, Certain types of cancer, Arthritis, Breathing problems, etc. Now since no one can change your height, a Nutritionist will aim to change the Weight you are at. If very thin and having a reading on the BMI scale that says underweight, to a reading saying Obese, the function of a nutritionist is to change the way you eat to reach a Calorie goal that will change your BODY MASS.
If your Nutritionist does not ask you this question and is not well versed with the dishes in your culture, its time for you to look elsewhere. A nutritionist key role is to change the meal type, meal distribution, timing of meal during the day and most of all suggest nutritional and healthy choices within that culture. In today’s world of Life style diseases like Diabetes and hypertension, Patients are lead to believe that their cultural palate is wrong. Actually what is wrong are the choices in that person’s life of foods that he or she chooses to eat. A good nutritionist will determine this at the very start and ensure that your diet plan is mapped out based on your culture.
The key function of the human body is to perform tasks to enable you to live your life. This burns Calories from energy that is acquired from Foods. So the more food you eat the more calories you give to your body. A good Nutritionist will ask you questions about your day and the type of work you do. How often do you exercise, and for how long? Whether your job is sedentary or you’re a housewife? Whether Standing long hours or sitting at a computer is your pace? All these questions will allow a nutritionist to plan how many calories you would require. This information is key to designing your customised program as if you need to loose weight then the calories need to be deficient in the diet or to gain weight the calories from food have to be more. After ascertaining this aspect, your nutritionist needs to take time, calculating your TEE or Total Energy expenditure. You may have heard this term or is reference when people say “I need 2300 calories per day”.
As most people are aware, the diseases prevalent today, are all lifestyle diseases related to the food we eat. Even food has Disease Causing Effect (sugar and Diabetes) as well as a Curative Effect (Garlic has cholesterol lowering properties). In asking for a clients blood test reports, a trained Nutritionists will be able to read your report card and see if you have passed most tests or have failed. Think of a nutritionist as a Tuition teacher that gives you extra help for you to pass your exams (in this case; life!!!). Some of us wait till we fail an exam (become hypertensive or diabetic), we meet these nutritionists at a hospital and they are called Dietitians. Some of us want to prepare in advance and hence we get help before we even attempt any exams. We call this thinking “Preventive Practice or Healthy Eating”. In using foods to alter your choices and lessen the disease risk factor, you will be able to drastically alter your life. A blood test really helps you along this direction and your nutritionist, if smart, will ensure the foods that you eat will give you those boosting capacities or disease busting effects in their diet plan.
Nutrition for daily activities should well balanced so that the customers achieves their desired goal (looking and feeling fit). In today’s fast paced world, most people are aware of the benefits of exercise and therefore will take up a physical activity. Activities like yoga or walking do not require any specific nutrition. However modern day fitness activities like strength training, aerobics, Pilates, Sports training at gyms or sports complex, exert far greater nutritional requirements on the body. Most people are already unfit and have been prescribed by doctors to exercise. Their body needs special pre workout and post workout nutritional help. A qualified Nutritionist knows that fitness nutrition will have to complement the foundation nutrition. The choices by the nutritionist can be all natural (butter milk after a workout) or Supplementation (Whey Protein or amino acids). In geriatric (post 50 age) persons, the absorption of nutrition via foods is lowered. In pursuit of fitness activities such individuals are a higher risk to injuries from physical structure activities due to slower nutrition delivery and hence slower absorption and recovery by the body. In such cases Nutritionists will be smart enough to get your current list of medications, supplements if any and then link them to your exercise program and then go about designing your plan.
"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" Hippocrates 460 - 359 BC. This saying has profound effect on the diet planning process in the Modern era. Currently our food habits are all wrong. Natural foods are replaced by processed foods. We are working less and eating more. Medicine has become the new food. Most people will sink in a false sense of security with Medication being available to control my disease; I can do what I please with my food. As a result, every one of us will be on medication by the time we are 50. A nutritionist needs to know your medicines….Certain foods produce interactions with drugs that are used today. A simple example : High-fat meals may increase the amount of Theophylline (used in asthma cases) in the body, while high-carbohydrate meals may decrease it or avoid taking Tetracycline( antibiotic) with dairy products, antacids, and vitamin supplements containing iron because they can interfere with the medication’s effectiveness. See how clear your nutritionist is in asking for this information.
Now this is a broad spectrum question, but most nutritionist will not spend too much time on this front. Its important that a nutritionists spends at least half an hour understand the way you eat. What’s important is to understand when you eat your meals, and in what quantities. This dietary recall will help the nutritionist when doing your diet planning, as the current habits and assessments will give a fair bit of an idea as is to which STRATEGIES of Nutritional therapy are needed.
In all these seven rules should be asked by your Nutritionist. In fact when you decide to get your nutrition plan done, call up the nutritionist and ask her to explain to you what is her requirement. Most likely she will ask most of these questions in the first ten minutes of a conversation. If you do not get this question, then ask them. See if its indicated that these will be assessed. Above all remember you are the paying customer, and a nutritionist is the service provider of health. So make a wise decision. Find below a Diabetic who asked all the right questions before availing of a nutritional service.
At QUA NUTRITION our dietitians walk you through all seven questions before formulating a customized plan. We deliver diet plans across the world via SKYPE. Email me ryan@quanutrition.com or call +919743430000 to know more about how a Dietitian can change the way you eat.
At QUA NUTRITION our dietitians walk you through all seven questions before formulating a customized plan. We deliver diet plans across the world via SKYPE. Email me ryan@quanutrition.com or call +919743430000 to know more about how a Dietitian can change the way you eat.
7 Golden Questions Your Nutritionist Should Ask before Making your Customised Plan.
Seven Golden Questions Your Nutritionist Should Ask You before Making a Customised Plan
In today’s world all that is written on Nutrition is from a consumer’s perspective. Consumers ask questions and experts answer them. With rising concerns for Nutritional and Life-style diseases more and more individuals are turning to Nutritionists to customise their diets.
Most of these interactions can be broadly categorized into
c) a healthy person wanting to take preventive action based on all the awareness in society today.
All three sets of people will turn ultimately to a Nutritionist for the planning and management of Food or Diet or Nutrition!
So if you are one of those people in the above categories, you will be turning to a nutritionist to guide you. Here are the questions they should be asking you? These seven golden questions will also help you determine if you nutritionist is truly customizing your diet plan or just working on a cut copy paste template from a manual, hospital chart or from a previous case. If they are not asking these questions, then maybe its time to get a better nutritionist. (You Can be sure the Nutritionists at this Site deliver the best Customised plans in the world)
These measurements are important to determine your Health. A qualified and dedicated Nutritionist will ensure calculation of your BMI or Body Mass Index. This Index is a measures weight in relation to height and the ensuring result will give you a figure. This number predicts or indicates an increased risk of developing High blood pressure, Heart disease, High blood cholesterol, Diabetes, Stroke, Certain types of cancer, Arthritis, Breathing problems, etc. Now since no one can change your height, a Nutritionist will aim to change the Weight you are at. If very thin and having a reading on the BMI scale that says underweight, to a reading saying Obese, the function of a nutritionist is to change the way you eat to reach a Calorie goal that will change your BODY MASS.
If your Nutritionist does not ask you this question and is not well versed with the dishes in your culture, its time for you to look elsewhere. A nutritionist key role is to change the meal type, meal distribution, timing of meal during the day and most of all suggest nutritional and healthy choices within that culture. In today’s world of Life style diseases like Diabetes and hypertension, Patients are lead to believe that their cultural palate is wrong. Actually what is wrong are the choices in that person’s life of foods that he or she chooses to eat. A good nutritionist will determine this at the very start and ensure that your diet plan is mapped out based on your culture.
The key function of the human body is to perform tasks to enable you to live your life. This burns Calories from energy that is acquired from Foods. So the more food you eat the more calories you give to your body. A good Nutritionist will ask you questions about your day and the type of work you do. How often do you exercise, and for how long? Whether your job is sedentary or you’re a housewife? Whether Standing long hours or sitting at a computer is your pace? All these questions will allow a nutritionist to plan how many calories you would require. This information is key to designing your customised program as if you need to loose weight then the calories need to be deficient in the diet or to gain weight the calories from food have to be more. After ascertaining this aspect, your nutritionist needs to take time, calculating your TEE or Total Energy expenditure. You may have heard this term or is reference when people say “I need 2300 calories per day”.
As most people are aware, the diseases prevalent today, are all lifestyle diseases related to the food we eat. Even food has Disease Causing Effect (sugar and Diabetes) as well as a Curative Effect (Garlic has cholesterol lowering properties). In asking for a clients blood test reports, a trained Nutritionists will be able to read your report card and see if you have passed most tests or have failed. Think of a nutritionist as a Tuition teacher that gives you extra help for you to pass your exams (in this case; life!!!). Some of us wait till we fail an exam (become hypertensive or diabetic), we meet these nutritionists at a hospital and they are called Dietitians. Some of us want to prepare in advance and hence we get help before we even attempt any exams. We call this thinking “Preventive Practice or Healthy Eating”. In using foods to alter your choices and lessen the disease risk factor, you will be able to drastically alter your life. A blood test really helps you along this direction and your nutritionist, if smart, will ensure the foods that you eat will give you those boosting capacities or disease busting effects in their diet plan.
Nutrition for daily activities should well balanced so that the customers achieves their desired goal (looking and feeling fit). In today’s fast paced world, most people are aware of the benefits of exercise and therefore will take up a physical activity. Activities like yoga or walking do not require any specific nutrition. However modern day fitness activities like strength training, aerobics, Pilates, Sports training at gyms or sports complex, exert far greater nutritional requirements on the body. Most people are already unfit and have been prescribed by doctors to exercise. Their body needs special pre workout and post workout nutritional help. A qualified Nutritionist knows that fitness nutrition will have to complement the foundation nutrition. The choices by the nutritionist can be all natural (butter milk after a workout) or Supplementation (Whey Protein or amino acids). In geriatric (post 50 age) persons, the absorption of nutrition via foods is lowered. In pursuit of fitness activities such individuals are a higher risk to injuries from physical structure activities due to slower nutrition delivery and hence slower absorption and recovery by the body. In such cases Nutritionists will be smart enough to get your current list of medications, supplements if any and then link them to your exercise program and then go about designing your plan.
"Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food" Hippocrates 460 - 359 BC. This saying has profound effect on the diet planning process in the Modern era. Currently our food habits are all wrong. Natural foods are replaced by processed foods. We are working less and eating more. Medicine has become the new food. Most people will sink in a false sense of security with Medication being available to control my disease; I can do what I please with my food. As a result, every one of us will be on medication by the time we are 50. A nutritionist needs to know your medicines….Certain foods produce interactions with drugs that are used today. A simple example : High-fat meals may increase the amount of Theophylline (used in asthma cases) in the body, while high-carbohydrate meals may decrease it or avoid taking Tetracycline( antibiotic) with dairy products, antacids, and vitamin supplements containing iron because they can interfere with the medication’s effectiveness. See how clear your nutritionist is in asking for this information.
Now this is a broad spectrum question, but most nutritionist will not spend too much time on this front. Its important that a nutritionists spends at least half an hour understand the way you eat. What’s important is to understand when you eat your meals, and in what quantities. This dietary recall will help the nutritionist when doing your diet planning, as the current habits and assessments will give a fair bit of an idea as is to which STRATEGIES of Nutritional therapy are needed.
In all these seven rules should be asked by your Nutritionist. In fact when you decide to get your nutrition plan done, call up the nutritionist and ask her to explain to you what is her requirement. Most likely she will ask most of these questions in the first ten minutes of a conversation. If you do not get this question, then ask them. See if its indicated that these will be assessed. Above all remember you are the paying customer, and a nutritionist is the service provider of health. So make a wise decision. Find below a Diabetic who asked all the right questions before availing of a nutritional service.
At QUA NUTRITION our dietitians walk you through all seven questions before formulating a customized plan. We deliver diet plans across the world via SKYPE. Email me ryan@quanutrition.com or call +919743430000 to know more about how a Dietitian can change the way you eat.
At QUA NUTRITION our dietitians walk you through all seven questions before formulating a customized plan. We deliver diet plans across the world via SKYPE. Email me ryan@quanutrition.com or call +919743430000 to know more about how a Dietitian can change the way you eat.
March 14, 2011
SOYA is not a Health Food and is Dangerous!
What few readers will realise is that I did work for one of the largest re-sellers of Protein powder in the world. My past role saw me as a pusher of the BENEFITS OF SOYA....IT WAS MY JOB!..Their SOYA formulation was pushed through thousands of distributors. However, one day I stumbled upon a professor of agriculture that handed me a folder of DEMERITS OF SOYA. As a food Bio technologist I started reading about SOYA....and then I got convinced that this is not the right food for our country....
Read on on how I discovered to my horror that SOYA is not the best food...occasionally I do eat soya..once in 15 days.....but not regularly....
Read on on how I discovered to my horror that SOYA is not the best food...occasionally I do eat soya..once in 15 days.....but not regularly....
Soy can be found in almost every product on your grocery store shelves -- corn chips, ice cream, canned tuna and every packaged food you can think of. It goes under names like yeast extract, soy protein, soybean oil, soy lecithin and soy flour.
But soy is one of the top eight allergens that cause immediate reactions such as coughing, sneezing, runny nose, hives, diarrhea, difficulty swallowing and anaphylactic shock.
The fact that unfermented soy is widely regarded as a health food in the United States is a perfect example of how a brilliant marketing strategy can fool millions. In India we are quickly taken to follow health food fads homegrown in the U S of A…
It all started when the food industry, presented with a quandary over what to do with the byproducts of their ever-growing soybean oil industry, had an idea.
With some processing, and some added flavorings, preservatives, sweeteners, emulsifiers and synthetic nutrients, they turned soy protein isolate (the key ingredient in most soy foods that imitate meat and dairy products), into a New Age Cinderella.
How Did Soy Become so Popular?
Years ago, tropical oils, such as palm and coconut oil, were commonly used in American food production. Spurred by financial incentives, the industry devised a plan to shift the market from these "exotic" tropical oils to something more "homegrown." As a result, a movement was created to demonize and vilify tropical oils in order to replace them with domestically grown oils such as corn and, primarily, soy.
For the most part, they've been very successful in their campaign to paint soy in a healthy light, and this belief was further propagated by the FDA's 1999 approval of this health claim for soy foods:
"Diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol that include 25 grams of soy protein a day may reduce the risk of heart disease."
Soy's glowing healthy image is not based on science, however, but rather shrewd marketing and outright lies that have taken root among the masses. The end result is enormous profits for the soy industry and impaired health for most who have been deceived into using unfermented soy long-term.
" Such a daily overload of soy inevitably increases the risk for soy allergenicity. The FDA determined that diets with four daily servings of soy protein can reduce levels of low-density lipoproteins (LDLs). Four daily servings of soy protein will promote the risk of more allergenic reactions. Also, they replace high-quality protein foods that have no anti-nutrients, with low-quality protein foods that have many anti-nutrients. In addition, the recommendation narrows the food base and negates the sound principle of choosing from as wide a variety of foods as possible."
What You Need to Know About Unfermented Soy
First and foremost, unfermented soy -- the type found in soymilk, soy burgers, soy ice cream and even tofu -- is not a health food.
If you were to carefully review the thousands of studies published on soy, I strongly believe you would reach the same conclusion as I have -- which is, the risks of consuming unfermented soy products FAR outweigh any possible benefits.
Dr. Kaayla Daniel, author of The Whole Soy Story, points out 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.
Here is just a sampling of the health effects that have been linked to soy consumption:
· Breast cancer
· Brain damage
· Infant abnormalities
· Thyroid disorders
· Kidney stones
· Immune system impairment
· Severe, potentially fatal food allergies
· Impaired fertility
· Danger during pregnancy and nursing
8 Top Reasons to Avoid Unfermented Soy
If you're eating soy because you believe it is healthy, please do yourself and your family a favor and click on some of the links above as well as read through the list that follows. You'll quickly see that soy, in its processed form, is not a food you want in your body.
- 91 percent of soy grown in the US is genetically modified (GM), most Soy supplements in India are imported
The genetic modification is done to impart resistance to the toxic herbicide Roundup. While this is meant to increase farming efficiency and provide you with less expensive soy, the downside is that your soy is loaded with this toxic pesticide. The plants also contain genes from bacteria that produce a protein that has never been part of the human food supply.
- GM soy has been linked to an increase in allergies. Disturbingly, the only published human feeding study on GM foods ever conducted verified that the gene inserted into GM soy transfers into the DNA of our gut bacteria and continues to function. This means that years after you stop eating GM soy, you may still have a potentially allergenic protein continuously being produced in your intestines.
Even more frightening is the potential for GM soy to cause infertility in future generations, which has been evidenced by recent Russian research.
- Soy contains natural toxins known as “anti-nutrients”
Soy foods contain anti-nutritional factors such as saponins, soyatoxin, phytates, protease inhibitors, oxalates, goitrogens and estrogens. Some of these factors interfere with the enzymes you need to digest protein. While a small amount of anti-nutrients would not likely cause a problem, the amount of soy that many Americans are now eating is extremely high.
- Soy contains hemagglutinin
Hemagglutinin is a clot-promoting substance that causes your red blood cells to clump together. These clumped cells are unable to properly absorb and distribute oxygen to your tissues.
- Soy contains goitrogens
Goitrogens are substances that block the synthesis of thyroid hormones and interfere with iodine metabolism, thereby interfering with your thyroid function.
- Soy contains phytates
Phytates (phytic acid) bind to metal ions, preventing the absorption of certain minerals, including calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc -- all of which are co-factors for optimal biochemistry in your body. This is particularly problematic for vegetarians, because eating meat reduces the mineral-blocking effects of these phytates (so it is helpful -- if you do eat soy -- to also eat meat).
- Soy is loaded with the isoflavones genistein and daidzein
Isoflavones are a type of phytoestrogen, which is a plant compound resembling human estrogen. These compounds mimic and sometimes block the hormone estrogen, and have been found to have adverse effects on various human tissues. Soy phytoestrogens are known to disrupt endocrine function, may cause infertility, and may promote breast cancer in women.
Drinking even two glasses of soy milk daily for one month provides enough of these compounds to alter your menstrual cycle. Although the FDA regulates estrogen-containing products, no warnings exist on soy.
- Soy has toxic levels of aluminum and manganese
Soybeans are processed (by acid washing) in aluminum tanks, which can leach high levels of aluminum into the final soy product.Soy formula has up to 80 times higher manganese than is found in human breast milk.
- Soy infant formula puts your baby’s health at risk
Infants are now fed soy formula, but the estrogens in soy can irreversibly harm your baby’s sexual development and reproductive health. Infants fed soy formula take in an estimated five birth control pills’ worth of estrogen every day.
Infants fed soy formula have up to 20,000 times the amount of estrogen in circulation as those fed other formulas! Above is a picture of rats fed formula..the smaller rat is on Soy milk!!
The best way to eliminate non-fermented soy from your diet is to avoid all processed foods and instead purchase whole foods that you prepare yourself. If you do buy packaged foods, you can check the label to see if it contains soy.
You can also keep this list of soy foods to AVOID handy:
· Tofu
· TVP (texturized vegetable protein) or soy protein isolate
· Soybean oil
· Soymilk
· Soy cheese, soy ice cream, soy yogurt
· Soy "meat" (meatless products made of TVP)
· Soy protein
· Edamame
· Soy infant formula
Is There a Healthy Way to Eat Soy?
Yes, and that's by choosing fermented soy.
After a long fermentation process, the phytate (which blocks your body's uptake of essential minerals) and anti-nutrient levels of soybeans are reduced, and their beneficial properties become available to your digestive system.
Traditionally fermented soy is the form that has been very popular in many Asian cultures for centuries, and numerous studies suggest it aids in preventing and reducing a variety of diseases including certain forms of heart disease and cancers.
One of the main benefits of fermented soy, especially natto, is that it is the best food source of vitamin K2. Vitamin K2 is essential to preventing osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and diseases of the brain such as dementia, and protecting you from various cancers including prostate, lung, liver cancer and leukemia.
For these reasons, I strongly recommend adding fermented soy to your diet, in varieties such as the following:
- Tempeh a fermented soybean cake with a firm texture and nutty, mushroom-like flavor.
- Miso, a fermented soybean paste with a salty, buttery texture (commonly used in miso soup).
- Natto, fermented soybeans with a sticky texture and strong, cheese-like flavor.
- Soy sauce, which is traditionally made by fermenting soybeans, salt and enzymes; be wary because many varieties on the market today are made artificially using a chemical process.
These are the soy varieties that will actually support and nourish your health -- unlike the vast majority of processed soy products on the market, which will do nothing but detract from it.
My best references are taken from this link http://americannutritionassociation.org/newsletter/downside-soybean-consumption-0
Pass the word around. eat only fermented SOYA. And if your looking for weight loss alternative Proteins as a vegetarian, Whey protein is a better and healthier option.
I have reproduced the text in most part from DR MERCOLA a famous doctor in the US. I am personally convinced that his views and that of so many other leading nutrition experts is that SOYA is unsafe.
If you want my team of dietitians to help you plan your protein minus soya call us on 080 3232 9292.
March 12, 2011
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