Risks of Soy Assessed
From: "Valerie & Richard James" <divulge@...>

The British government's Committee on Toxicity in Food and
the Environment
(C o T) has assessed the risks to consumers of the
phytoestrogens (isoflavones) in soy foods and other
products, especially the risks to infants of hormonal
disruption from consumption of soy infant formulas,

You can see their findings here
http://www.foodstandards.gov.uk/multimedia/webpage/
phytoreportworddocs

We draw your attention in particular to the chapters on
fertility and reproduction, and on thyroid function.

You will find more on these topics at
http://www.soyonlineservice.co.nz

Having this information, who would knowingly feed their
child soy... or themselves, for that matter? Yet,
incredibly, this Committee has not suggested that consumers be told
of this. All it does is conclude that doctors only
prescribe soy formulas "when clinically indicated" (whatever
that means).

It does not even suggest that doctors tell their patients
what risks there may be, or that these risks should be
matters of "informed consent". How many mothers would submit to
exposing their baby, if they knew the full extent of risk to their
child's future?


The "Precautionary Principle" would indicate, from the
material offered by the CoT Committee, that isoflavones
should be removed from soy protein