Everyone who visits this blog knows I developed a severe soy allergy. Since I have been off soy for  over five years now, I have never felt better, and still maintain my normal weight.

Here’s a review on what ingredients you need to beware of on the labels:

Food processors don’t always list “soy” instead you see labels with “textured vegetable protein” (TVP), “textured plant protein”, “hydrolyzed vegetable protein” (HVP), “vegetable oil” or “MSG” (monosodium glutamate). Other ingredients to watch out for are “lecithin”, “vegetable broth”, “boullion”, “natural flavorings” (unless flavors are listed).

Keep in mind that manufacturers can switch the ingredients used in food products without warning. So again, be sure to read the labels.

Vitamins, over-the-counter drugs and prescriptions may contain soy. Beware of pills with soy oil bases, Vitamin E derived from soy oil, and soy components such as isoflavones The inhaler Atrovent is just one of many drug-store products containing soy.

Soy inks, paints, plastics, carpets, mattresses, cars, etc. are just a few of the industrial products that may be green for the environment but deadly for highly allergic persons.Some bakeries have soy dust floating in the air, and also bulk bins aisle of your health food stores. Now it is clear to me why I don’t like the smell of baked goods on premises in the grocery stores, and the deli sections that cook the rotisserie chickens (cooked with soybean oil).

I would like to see you take the challenge and remove soy from your diet for a month, and let me know if you don’t feel better. I bet that you will!