I recently read an e-How article I found and they too know soy products are found in over 60% of our food supply. It’s a substitute for animal proteins for vegetarian and vegan diets. Soy also found in many beauty products, vitamin supplements, and candles. That’s why someone like myself with a severe soy allergy must read every label thoroughly. After my extensive research there were questions as to what too much of these products can mean to women’s health issues.

Breast Cancer

Soy has phytoestrogens that is an estrogen-like substance. These substances should be avoided if a woman has an estrogen-dependent breast cancer. Research suggests that eating large amounts of soy products, if you have this type of breast cancer, may be detrimental to your health, according to WomensHealth.gov.

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“For years, the soybean and its derivatives have been touted as the ultimate in health food, but more research shows the direct opposite may be true.”
-Omar Sommereyns
Florida International

Read Omar’s entire publication in PDF covering…

• Issues of Contention Regarding Soy Consumption
• The Soy Industry and the FDA
• Why Reading Food Labels is Important
• Studies showing soy can have a negative impact on one’s health, including thyroid function

Dairy consumers, including Organic Consumers Association members, who sued several national chains (Wal-Mart, Costco, Target, and Wil Oats Markets) as well as the largest U.S. provider of store-brand organic milk (Aurora Organic Dairy) claiming they falsely labeled and sold milk from industrial feedlots as “organic” can continue with their lawsuit under a federal appeals court ruling issued Wednesday.

The ruling from the Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals means a lower court must hear claims that Aurora Organic Dairy’s milk was deceptively marketed as coming from small farms with open pastures.

“Each defendant is alleged to have misrepresented the manner in which the dairy cows were raised and fed in violation of various state deceptive trade practices laws,” the ruling said.

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Source: U.S. Department of Agriculture

WASHINGTON, Sept. 1, 2010 – Trinh Company, a San Jose, Calif., establishment, is recalling approximately 2,070 pounds of cooked shredded pork skin products because the products were produced without the benefit of federal inspection, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) announced today.

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