Whole Soy Story: The Dark Side of America's Favorite Health Food

by Kaayla T. Daniel

Overview

A groundbreaking expose that tells the truth about soy that scientists know but that the soy industry has tried to suppress. Soy is not a health food, does not prevent disease and has not even been proven safe. Epidemiological, clinical and laboratory studies link soy to malnutrition, digestive problems, thyroid dysfunction, cognitive decline, reproductive disorders, even heart disease and cancer.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780979209550
Publisher:	Nourishing Traditions
Publication date:	03/10/2005
Sold by:	SIMON & SCHUSTER
Format:	eBook
Pages:	480
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Kaayla T. Daniel, PhD, CCN — THE WHOLE NUTRITIONIST®— holds a doctorate in Nutritional Sciences and Anti-Aging Therapies and is a board-certified clinical nutritionist based in Santa Fe, NM.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	xv
	Introduction	1
Part 1	A Short History of Soy
Chapter 1	Soy in the East	9
Chapter 2	Soy Goes West	17
Chapter 3	The Ploy of Soy	27
Part 2	Types of Soy
Chapter 4	Green Pods, Yellow Beans and Black Eyes	37
Chapter 5	The Good Old Soys-Soybeans with Culture	47
Chapter 6	Not Milk and UnCheese-The Udder Alternatives	63
Chapter 7	All American Soy-First Generation Soy Products	79
Chapter 8	All American Soy-Second Generation Soy Products	85
Chapter 9	Soy Oil and Margarine-Fat of the Land	97
Chapter 10	Soy Lecithin-Sludge to Profit	113
Chapter 11	Not Trusting the Process	121
Chapter 12	Formula for Disaster	133
Part 3	Macronutrients in Soy
Chapter 13	Soy Protein-The Inside Scoop	153
Chapter 14	Soy Fat-Shortening Life	171
Chapter 15	Soy Carbohydrate-The Flatulence Factor	185
Part 4	Antinutrients in Soybeans
Chapter 16	Protease Inhibitors-Tryping on Soy	195
Chapter 17	Phytates-Ties that Bind	213
Chapter 18	Lectins-Glutins for Punishment	227
Chapter 19	Saponins-Soap in Your Mouth	239
Chapter 20	Oxalates-Casting Stones	245
Part 5	Heavy Metals
Chapter 21	Manganese Toxicity-ADD-ing It Up	251
Chapter 22	Fluoride Toxicity-Dental and Mental Fluorosis	259
Chapter 23	Aluminum Toxicity-Foil-ing Health	265
Part 6	Soy Allergens: Shock of the New
Chapter 24	The Rise in Soy Allergies	271
Chapter 25	The Soy-Free Challenge	287
Part 7	Soy Estrogens: Hormone Havoc
Chapter 26	Phytoestrogens-Food's Fifth Column	295
Chapter 27	Soy and the Thyroid-A Pain in the Neck	311
Chapter 28	Soy Infant Formula-Birth Control for Baby?	331
Chapter 29	Soy and the Reproductive System-Breeding Discontent	357
Chapter 30	Soy and Cancer-High Hopes and Hype	379
	End Notes	395
	Index	441

What People are Saying About This

Joseph Mercola

Kaayla Daniel blows the lid off nutritional dogma. Soy is NOT a miracle food.

Editorial Reviews

Kaayla Daniel blows the lid off nutritional dogma. Soy is NOT a miracle food.

Dr. Joseph Mercola

Dr. Daniel's book contains everything you ever wanted to know about soy and much, much more and will make you wonder just why our nation, our bodies and our children are not being properly protected. Soy is just one more example of risks to the public that far outweigh the greedy benefits derived by big business and politicians. It is another serious wake-up call.

Doris J. Rapp

The Whole Soy Story is a devastating and authoritative indictment of the safety of soy foods and a "must read" for consumers who are under the misconception that soy foods promote health. Convincingly argued and extensively supported by the medical and scientific literature, it exposes the misleading propaganda of the soy industry in promoting the supposed benefits of this inferior food.

Kilmer McCully

Bravo to Kaayla for digging up the whole story on soy and telling the truth.

Debra Lynn Dadd

This is the most important nutritional book of the decade. Every concerned American should read this brilliant and entertaining exposé.

William Campbell Douglass II

Anyone in America who is interested in safe, healthy nutrition must come to terms with Dr. Kaayla T. Daniel's The Whole Soy Story. This book is a gauntlet thrown at the feet of the soy industry, whose reputation often seems based as much on self-promotion as science. Well-written, authoritative and accessible to the layperson, this is science writing at its best.

Larry Dossey

Kaayla Daniel exposes soy for what it is, a substance that, when processed, packaged and marketed by unscrupulous companies—not to mention overconsumed by the public—becomes a harmone-disrupting drug capable of causing a host of health problems, including thyroid conditions. In The Whole Soy Story, Kaayla Daniel dismantles the marketing mythology that sells soy as a health food, replacing it with the fascinating, well-researched and fully referenced truth about soy's very real health dangers.

Mary J. Shomon

There is a disturbing number of safety issues surrounding soy that have yet to be resolved. Dr. Kaayla Daniel begins an important dialogue.

Barbara Dossey