Does Soy Cause Acne?

Eating and thinking that soy products are healthy in the American society is a terrible misconception that needs to be publicized and put a stop to before the population of the United States develops anymore health problems, tumors, and cancers.

In this article, I will attempt to shed light on and disclose the many false beliefs that have been developed throughout the years about soy from false information, media, and corrupt corporations and money hungry associations.

This will be done via exposing the many damaging soy health studies and how many a corrupt people have attempted to cover up soy’s evils.

The confession of the guilt that soy’s supposed “benefits” bring is a myth that needs to be exposed because without it, the general public would go on believing the many false “benefits” that soy provides and in turn, further exacerbate many more health problems, tumors, cancers, and possibly even DNA complications.

Most of the public currently believe that soy is one of the greatest all around foods of all time and “In addition to protecting the heart, soy has demonstrated powerful anticancer benefits… the Japanese, who eat 30 times as much soy as North Americans, have a lower incidence of cancers of the breast, uterus and prostate.” 37

This may be true, but there’s another side to soy foods that most of the public is unaware of, for instance the fact that the Japanese, and Asians in general, may eat more soy but they also have higher rates of esophagus, stomach, pancreas, thyroid, and liver cancer than Americans do. 38, 39

Review of Literature

Soy naturally contains large quantities of natural toxins that can greatly hinder health and cause many problems in the human body. Among them are very powerful enzyme inhibitors which block the digestion of proteins by blocking trypsin and other enzymes during the digestion process.

These inhibitors, contained with soy beans, are not completely deactivated when soy beans are cooked and in turn can translate into serious gastric distress, reduced protein digestion, and chronic deficiencies. Having previously been tested on animals, diets high in these trypsin inhibitors that soy beans contain have caused pathological problems with the pancreas, including cancer. 14

And if that’s not enough, soy beans also contain haemagglutinin which is a clot-promoting substance. Both trypsin inhibitors and haemagglutinin are growth inhibitors causing test animals to fail to grow. Fermenting soy beans reduces these growth inhibitors some but does not completely eliminate them.

But wait, there’s more…

99% of soy is genetically modified and contains one of the highest percentages of pesticide contamination of any American food on the market. (www.mercola.com) Soybeans are also high in phytic acid which can block the absorption of essential minerals such as calcium, magnesium, copper, iron, and zinc.

While manufacturers of soy have tried many things and worked very hard at purifying soy and making it as nonlethal as possible, it’s only caused more problems. Acid washing in aluminum tanks often leaches high levels of aluminum into soy mix. And even then, not all of the trypsin inhibitor can be removed. High-temperature processing that’s done causes proteins within the soy to denature so much that they’re ineffective and unrecognizable to the human body. 23

Soy protein isolate, which is a key ingredient in the soy foods used to replace regular foods, has caused greater needs for vitamins E, K, D and B12 as well as deficiencies in calcium, magnesium, manganese, molybdenum, copper, iron, and zinc. 26 The phytic acid left over in soy also causes deficiencies in zinc and iron. 27

The point is that soy causes problems.

It’s true, Asians do eat soy.

But what’s not known is that most Asian cultures consume soy only small amounts and not as entire meal replacements like Americans have somehow managed to “supersize.”

A 1998 survey found that the average amount of soy eaten on a daily basis in Japan was about 8 grams for men and 7 grams for women. 41 Not to mention the fact that Asians often have diets that considerably different from that of the Western culture thereby supplying them with a diet that may be better able to handle the little soy that they do already eat.

But that still doesn’t answer the question of why Americans think that soy is so good for them even though there exists so much evidence that it’s highly toxic to the body in large quantities?

The American public has been duped, once again, by the ingenious marketing of the corrupt money hungry nephews of Uncle Sam.

Through clever marketing, sly wording, and insinuated health benefits, a once unknown and undesirable soy has now become the new poster child for health foods everywhere. “The quickest way to gain product acceptability in the less affluent society,” said an industry spokesman, “is to have the product consumed on its own merit in a more affluent society.” 3

Therefore, soy has now become a health food that promotes wellness and keeps us living forever.

Is it any surprise that in 1998, “the FDA made the unprecedented move of rewriting PTI’s petition, removing any reference to the phyto-estrogens and substituting a claim for soy protein – a move that was in direct contradiction to the agency’s regulations”? (www.mercola.com)

Or that most of public don’t know about how the FDA also received a report from the final British Government report on phytoestrogens, a chemical abundant in soy products, which warned against the potential harmful effects of soy.

Also, very few people know about how soy lowering cholesterol doesn’t really apply to the general public at all.

“Individuals with cholesterol levels over 250 mg/dl would experience a “significant” reduction of 7 to 20 per cent in levels of serum cholesterol if they substituted soy protein for animal protein. Cholesterol reduction was insignificant for individuals whose cholesterol was lower than 250 mg/dl.”

Translation, soy may help a person’s cholesterol if it’s greater than 250 mg/dl only and not the rest of us. “Sufficient scientific evidence” of soy’s cholesterol-lowering properties originates mostly from a 1995 meta-analysis by Dr James Anderson, which was sponsored by Protein Technologies International and published in the New England Journal of Medicine. 33

It’s technically not lying when these boxes of soy products boast the fact that they may help reduce cholesterol, but it’s also leaving many details out. So that makes it okay? Not at all.

PROPOSAL TO SOLVE PROBLEM

My approach is to start small.

It’s all about information.

Coming from a background which ingested a lot of soy products thinking that it was healthy, I can definitely understand the appeal of soy: It tastes good, it’s affordable, and it’s healthy.

What’s not to like about it?

However, I think what’s really beginning to change my mind is the third and last point: it’s healthy. While soy products taste good, they’re not exactly a food great enough on the scale of palatability or affordability that I would be willing to sacrifice my health.

But the problem is that this knowledge isn’t known.

For most people, their source of knowledge comes from the labels on these food boxes, from what their friends say, and from what the media wants to tell them. These food boxes and television programs don’t really care for health; they care about where the money’s going to be made. And most people don’t really know what they’re talking about; they just hear from a friend that this or that food is for them and what do they do? They go out and buy it. Why? Because their friend said it was “good.”
Therefore, I’m going to take the same approach.

And while I might not be able to take the media and food labels at this time due to limited funding resources, I can definitely pass on the knowledge through word of mouth and tell my friends that it’s “bad.”

It’s as simple as spreading the news and knowledge with my family. My parents will tell their friends when they see fit and they will tell their friends. My sister will tell her friends, and they will tell their friends.

I will tell my friends, and in turn, they will tell theirs.

It’s said that every person is connected to one another within 7 degrees, are we not?

People may not appreciate such a finding however. After drinking soy milk and eating soy products for such a prolonged period of time, it’s expected that a stranger coming into your household and telling you not to eat a long time habitual food of yours is going to generate dissonance.

It’s not surprising when someone doesn’t believe that soy is “bad.”

I certainly had the same reaction.

I was in disbelief.

So did my parents.

So did most of my friends.

After so many years of hearing about its benefits, how could it possibly be harmful?

But it’s also true that that’s all most people know about soy, only what they’ve “heard.” I’m about to change that, I’m going to teach them more and they’ll have more than just what they “heard” and instead the future will bring what they’ve “learned.”

SO WHAT DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH ACNE?

When your hormones are out of balance, your body will act in all sorts of ways and do all sorts of things it’s not supposed to do.

Just think of the two times in most human lives when our hormones our out of balance:

1.) A growing teenager

2.) A pregnant woman

Both of these people have “raging” hormones, they’re just “raging” in different ways.  In the first situation, with the growing teenager, his or her body is changing from a boy or girl to a man or woman.  In the second situation, a woman’s body must adapt to accommodate an second living being therefore her body’s hormones are going to different that what she’s normally experiencing when she’s not pregnant.

It’s also during these two times that most people, if they’re going to break out, that they DO break out and have acne.

This is due to the fact that your hormones are your body’s instructional messages.  And when these instructional messages aren’t behaving as they’re supposed to, odd things happen AKA acne.

That’s why it’s important to know what foods may affect your hormones (especially if you already suffer from a potential “hormonal” situation) and which foods may help you better control hormones for acne.

SO WHAT SHOULD I DO TO HELP ACNE?

Well you should start with understanding what foods are good for you and what foods aren’t.

But what’s even better is that all the foods and the diet that I suggest, not only combat acne, but also promote health and fitness too. You’ll naturally lose weight if you follow my advice by getting the right amount of essential fatty acids, clean proteins, fresh vegetables, and the list goes on!

 

So by now you’re probably wondering, okay, so I’m going to get kefir, but what should I eat to make sure that I get these live cultures and keep them living in my body so that I can have acne free clear skin?

Well.. you’ve come to the right place because I have just the answer for you!

Discover the Acne Free Diet

Learn the Acne Regimen

References

• Coleman, Richard J., “Vegetable Protein – A Delayed Birth?” Journal of the American Oil Chemists’ Society 52:238A, April 1975.
• Rackis, Joseph J. et al., “The USDA trypsin inhibitor study. I. Background, objectives and procedural details”, Qualification of Plant Foods in Human Nutrition, vol. 35, 1985.
• Wallace, G.M., “Studies on the Processing and Properties of Soymilk”, Journal of Science and Food Agriculture 22:526-535, October 1971.
• Rackis, Joseph J. et al., “The USDA trypsin inhibitor study”, ibid.
• Anderson, James W. et al., “Meta-analysis of the Effects of Soy Protein Intake on Serum Lipids”, New England Journal of Medicine (1995) 333:(5):276-282.
• Campbell, Colin T. et al., The Cornell Project in China
• Natural Medicine News (L & H Vitamins, 32-33 47th Avenue, Long Island City, NY 11101), USA, January/February 2000, p. 8.
• Harras, Angela (ed.), Cancer Rates and Risks, National Institutes of Health, National Cancer Institute, 1996, 4th edition.
• Searle, Charles E. (ed.), Chemical Carcinogens, ACS Monograph 173, American Chemical Society, Washington, DC, 1976.