Soy & You. Bad Taste: Bad Reviews

Associated Press
DALLAS - Veggie burgers and tofu might not be so great at warding off heart disease after all.

An American Heart Association committee reviewed a decade of studies on soy's benefits and came up with results that are now casting doubt on the health claim that soy-based foods and supplements significantly lower cholesterol.
The findings could lead the FDA to re-evaluate rules that currently allow companies to tout a cholestorol-lowering benefit on the labels of soy-based food.

Boy, it's a good thing I never bought into that whole soy scam. I would've drastically increased damage to my tastebud's while consuming soy sludge, while my LDL production would still be producing more graphiclly than VIVID

The panel also found that neither soy nor the soy component isoflavone reduced symptoms of menopause, such as "hot flashes," and that isoflavones don't help prevent breast, uterine or prostate cancer.
Which is the main reason we were even dooped to begin with.

HERE IT IS IN PRINT:
Based on its findings, the committee said it would not recommend using isoflavone supplements in food or pills. It concluded that soy-containing foods and supplements did not significantly lower cholesterol, and it said so in a statement recently published in the journal Circulation.

Nutrition experts say soy-based foods still are good because they often are eaten in place of less healthy fare like burgers and hot dogs.

Sure. OR, I could really save myself the money and trouble and eat the cardboard boxes my kids toys come in, thus cutting down on waste and recycling costs.
What do cardiologists think about the soy revolution?

"We don't want to lull people into a false sense of security that by eating soy they can solve the problem (with cholesterol)," said Dr. Michael Crawford, chief of clinical cardiology at University of California San Francisco Medical Center.
"If they are radically altering their diet where they're only eating soy in the hopes that this is going to bring their cholesterol down, they're deluding themselves,"

And nutritionists? How do they feel about our friend the soybean?

"Soyproteins and isoflavones don't have any major health benefits other than soy protein products are generally good foods," said Dr. Frank Sacks, a professor of nutrition at the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston who led the committee. "They're good to replace other foods that are high in cholesterol."

Still, the Heart Association statement notes that soy products like tofu, soy butter, soy nuts and some soy burgers should be heart-healthy because they contain a lot of polyunsaturated fats, fiber, vitamins and minerals and are low in saturated fat.
So is CRACK, but you won't see me supplementing my diet with that.
And what do they mean by "should be heart- healthy"?

"It's important not to think about foods in black-and-white terms", said Dr. Michael Lim, director of the cardiac catheterization lab at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
This coming from a man whose job it is to stick a small tube up the inside of your leg and run it through...God knows where, to try and find "Trouble". Listen, there's always going to be trouble if you try any procedure on me that I've seen in the Matrix.

"There's no quick fix," he said. "Our bad cholesterol numbers would certainly get worse if instead of eating tofu burgers we went out and had hamburgers each night of the week."
To him, I say F*** You and your little tofu too.
I do think of food in terms of Black-and-White.
Some cows are black and white before I eat them.
Look at the bright side, veggie burgers and tofu might not be so great at warding off heart disease, but I bet if you hang them over your front doorway, meateaters and the Angel of Death are sure to pass over.
Right now, I've gotta finish this triple whopper with cheese before my brain tells my stomach I'm full.
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