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Soy Smart Health: for women & men, July 6, 2005
This review is from: Soy Smart Health: Discover the "Super Food" That Fights Breast Cancer, Heart Disease, Osteoporosis, Menopausal Discomforts, and Estrogen Dominance (Paperback)
Soy Smart Health comes across as slightly too simple. They should have spent a bit more time editing the text... as there are plenty of opportunities for laying it out better or expressing ideas more clearly (expected more from a bunch of PH.D's): They tend to repeat themselves a lot in rapid succession but not in a way that is useful. The book explains the different effects of phyto-estrogens & estrogens very well but they miss the opportunity to tie this in with xeno-estrogens neatly. Women with breast cancer who want to know whether or not Soy phyto-estrogens will make things better or worst may gain some insight. Unfottunately the book seems to only highlight the positives and fails to mention any of the negative opinions. It is also relevant to women with Estrogen Dominance Syndrome that might be suffering from Endometriosis: You gain a whole new respect and understanding for the balancing role of progesterone. It does have a few negative things to say about Soy oil (Omega 6 oils)... but it's a bit short on detail. The book is not just for women... although the author certainly gives this impression. To balance it up a bit they could have added a section on men... as men too can have high estrogen levels (from xenoestrogens). The devil is in the detail with most things... soy as well... and it seems like there's still a bit more they need to explain... and which remains unexplained in this book. Not sure why they didn't go the extra mile as there's a lot more they could/should have added. This book is mostly pro-soy and may leave those who want a balanced and well informed argument feeling short changed. The Dark side of Soy by Kaayla T Daniels was a much more thoroughly researched book and thus much more informative. :-)
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Research and historical reasonings for eating soy, September 8, 2011
At my search after a book especially concerning soy I only found a few and then of these choused this one because previously having read many other writings by Richard Passwater, PhD, and there having found good research information. Over the last 5 years I've bought a couple of books concerning more healthy eating, but most of these not even containing the word soy, so therefore I had to buy this one and I've been highly satisfied.
The book was printed in 2004 but the knowledge it contain have nearly not changed in the past years. For as I also in a research went into Google I at some places for example got the answers telling me that research results from this years (2011) concludes that after a breast cancer surgery the patients must not eat soy, like most of the doctors says, and then on other addresses in Google found the completely opposite remark, that's fine to eat soy after a breast cancer surgery. But as result of what I've been reading over many years, written by research workers, and finally in this book, I conclude that it's also a plus to eat soy after a breast cancer surgery.
And concerning the eating of soy we in this book, among other, are reminded that in Japan and China the women who daily eats soy, over the past time has had 10 times as little breast cancer as the women in USA who don't eat soy.
And in the book we also gets much explanation, among other especially concerning the estrogens from soy "fighting" against the bodies own produced estrogens and thereby don't let a tumor, breast cancer, starting being built. And also reads about the connections, among other, between the calcium in the soy helping against the osteoporosis which makes the bones weaker by hollowing them by the loosing of the bone morrow.
Back in Denmark I sometimes was eating soy, and then continued here in Thailand, but my wife being from Thailand, first in this year after my advice starting eating tofu and thereby got soy. And she suddenly 2 month ago was stated having breast cancer, which I believe by the biggest probability being the result of a doctor's advice in her over 30 years of taking estrogen pills. And now after the breast cancer surgery the surgery doctor has told her not to eat soy. After all my previous reading through many years, and now in this book, I'm completely opposite to the doctor, and thereby most of the doctors, by telling her just to start eating tofu again, and explaining why. I think that we in the future will be much more advised to eat soy.
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Lots of information., February 28, 2008
I was pleased with this book. I've been a vegetarian for about a year and I wanted to know if I was getting the right amount of protein in my diet. Now I have a thorough understanding of soy, its pros and cons. I passed the book along to my daughter.
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