Soy Alert!

Brochure: The Myths & Truths About Soy as well as our summary of soy dangers are provided on our Soy Alert! trifold brochure (PDF). You may print this at home or at a copy store for mass distribution. If you wish, you can order quantities of professionally printed two-color Soy Alert! trifold brochures for 25 cents each by using the Order Form.

Confused About Soy?--Soy Dangers Summarized

• High levels of phytic acid in soy reduce assimilation of calcium, magnesium, copper, iron and zinc. Phytic acid in soy is not neutralized by ordinary preparation methods such as soaking, sprouting and long, slow cooking. High phytate diets have caused growth problems in children.
• Trypsin inhibitors in soy interfere with protein digestion and may cause pancreatic disorders. In test animals soy containing trypsin inhibitors caused stunted growth.
• Soy phytoestrogens disrupt endocrine function and have the potential to cause infertility and to promote breast cancer in adult women.
• Soy phytoestrogens are potent antithyroid agents that cause hypothyroidism and may cause thyroid cancer. In infants, consumption of soy formula has been linked to autoimmune thyroid disease.
• Vitamin B₁₂ analogs in soy are not absorbed and actually increase the body's requirement for B₁₂.
• Soy foods increase the body's requirement for vitamin D.
• Fragile proteins are denatured during high temperature processing to make soy protein isolate and textured vegetable protein.
• Processing of soy protein results in the formation of toxic lysinoalanine and highly carcinogenic nitrosamines.
• Free glutamic acid or MSG, a potent neurotoxin, is formed during soy food processing and additional amounts are added to many soy foods.
• Soy foods contain high levels of aluminum which is toxic to the nervous system and the kidneys.

The above soy dangers and our Myths & Truths About Soy are available in our Soy Alert! trifold brochure for mass distribution.

Read the above summary of soy dangers in French.

Articles

Soy Studies

• Dangers of Dietary Isoflavones at Levels Above Those Found in Traditional Diets, Posted 19 OCT 2002
• Studies Showing General Adverse Effects of Soybeans, 1971-2001, Posted 19 OCT 2002

Soy Activism

• WAPF Comments to FDA on Solae Petition (PDF), Posted 11 APR 2005
• Rebuttal to Solae Health Claim re: Soy and Cancer (PDF), Posted 25 JAN 2005
• Response to Solae's FDA Petition (PDF), Posted 14 JUN 2004
• Press Release Regarding Response to Solae's FDA Petition (PDF), Posted 05 JUL 2004
• Soy-Based Infant Formula: Testimony to the US FDA, Posted 12 DEC 2003

Soy Articles

• Soy and Osteoporosis: Not a Leg to Stand On, Posted 18 DEC 2006
• Soy Industry on the Attack, Posted 16 JUL 2006
• The Soy Controversy, Posted 26 MAY 2004
• Soy and the Brain, Posted 28 APR 2004
• Advertising and Monkey Business, Posted 17 FEB 2004
• Committee on Toxicity in Foods and the Environment, Posted 23 MAR 2003
• Reply to Robert Cohen, the Not Milk Man, Posted 09 FEB 2003
• Tragedy and Hype
• Soy: The Dark Side of America's Favorite "Health" Food
• The Ploy of Soy
• Soya: The Quiet Conquest
• Soy Isoflavones: Panacea or Poison?
• Maganese Madness

Excerpts From The Whole Soy Story
By Kaayla Daniel, PhD, CCN

• The Promotion of Soy: Introduction by Sally Fallon, Posted 09 AUG 2005
• Soy Lecithin: From Sludge to Profit, Posted 24 FEB 2004
• Soy Carbohydrates: The Flatulence Factor, Posted 06 DEC 2003
• Not Milk and Uncheese: The Udder Alternatives, Posted 25 SEP 2004

Soy Updates

• New Markets for Soy Products, Posted 04 MAR 2007
• 6th International Soy Symposium, Posted 24 AUG 2006
• Bad News for the Soy Industry, Posted Fall 2005
• More Studies, Posted Winter 2004
• Soy Alert! The 12th Annual Soy Symposium, Posted Fall 2004
• More Studies, Posted 13 DEC 2003
• Soy: The Unsuspected Cause of Thyroid Problems?, Posted 05 DEC 2003
• Soy Alert! Update 2004, Posted 20 JUL 2004
• Soy Alert! Update 2003, Posted 02 JUL 2003
• Soy Alert! Update 2002
• Soy Alert! Update 2001
• Soy Alert! Update 2000

Testimonials

• Complaints About Soy
• One Woman's Story
• Charlie's Story

Soy and Children

• The Effects of Phytoestrogens on Male Development, Posted 16 NOV 2005
• Soy-Based
  Infant Formula: Testimony to the US FDA, Posted 12 DEC 2003
• Teens Before Their Time, Posted 08 SEP 2002
• Soy-Based Infant Formula: Concerns and Recommendations, Posted 12 APR 2003
• Soy-Based Infant Formula: Birth Control Pills for Babies, Posted 19 OCT 2002
• Charlie's Story

Also of Interest

On other web sites:

• Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food in Mothering Magazine By Kaayla T. Daniel
• ATTACK OF THE KILLER BEAN! THE CASE AGAINST SOY
  By Elaine Hollingsworth
   

Elsewhere on our web site:

• Press Release: 09/06/01 Experts dispute soy formula safety
• Myths & Truths About Soy (In our Myths & Truths section. Also in Danish, French, German, Japanese, and Russian)
• Translation of our Soy Brochure:
  • Pas op met soya (Dutch)
  • Traduit de SOY ALERT par la Weston A Price Foundation (French)
• Les bonnes raisons d'éviter de consommer les dérivés du soja (French)
• Resume Des Dangers Du Soja (French)
• Una teoría escalofríante on the site "El Gran Peligro de la soya" (Spanish)