The common objection I hear from people in regards to Veganism is that they don’t want to be Vegan because soy is bad for you and they don’t want man boobs..

Here are some facts i’d invite you to consider about Soy..

1. You don’t have to eat soy on a plant based diet.
2. The majority of soy raised for human consumption is NON GMO.
3. The vast amount of GMO Soy is fed to animals before being slaughtered for human consumption.
4. “While soy does not contain estrogen, animal foods do. (Soy contains phytoestrogens called isoflavones that may mimic the activity of the hormone estrogen in your body.)
Many consumers are aware that animals used for meat and dairy are commonly
supplemented with synthetic growth hormones, but what they don’t consider is that animal flesh and cow milk also contain their own
naturally occurring estrogen— and this is true even of “grass-fed” and “organic” animals.
Furthermore, meat, dairy and eggs all contain phytoestrogens; they are pervasive in our food, both plant and animal-derived,
and you are not avoiding them entirely by avoiding soy.” – See more at: https://freefromharm.org/health-nutrition/vegan-doctor-addresses-soy-myths-and-misinformation/#sthash.0eOaEdUT.dpuf
5. “The inverse relationship between soy consumption and risk of developing premenopausal breast cancer has been clearly established. In other words, higher rates of soy intake are associated with lower rates of breast cancer.
However, large clinical trials have not yet been conducted regarding the effect of phytoestrogen consumption on tumor growth in established cancer patients.
To date, such studies have utilized small sample sizes, and the methods for obtaining data were highly variable.” – See more at: https://freefromharm.org/health-nutrition/vegan-doctor-addresses-soy-myths-and-misinformation/#sthash.0eOaEdUT.dpuf
6. “Moobs aka Man boobs is another of the heavily circulated soy myths with no actual basis in scientific fact. I am reminded of the fear I had of swallowing bubblegum as a child — “because it will take 7 years to digest!” Gynecomastia is the medical term for developed breasts in men. Fetal sexual organ formation and secondary sexual characteristic development are essentially hormone driven. The ‘soy causes man boobs’ urban legend is thus likely rooted in the confusion between estrogen and phytoestrogen, but, as previously explained, phytoestrogen is not estrogen. If indeed this were the case, there would be a lot of men in need of bras.” – See more at: https://freefromharm.org/health-nutrition/vegan-doctor-addresses-soy-myths-and-misinformation/#sthash.0eOaEdUT.dpuf
7. Soy has been a major staple in Asian cultures for centuries, and their incidence of coronary artery disease, hypertension, ischemic stroke, hormone-dependent cancers, osteoporosis, postmenopausal hip fracture, diabetes, and obesity are all markedly lower than what is seen here in the US. However, when sectors of these populations begin to consume foods based more on the Western diet, not surprisingly, their patterns of disease begin to mimic ours as well – See more at: https://freefromharm.org/health-nutrition/vegan-doctor-addresses-soy-myths-and-misinformation/#sthash.0eOaEdUT.dpuf

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