When I read this I became quite agitated because I am a lover of soya in all its ramifications. Dont know how a suposedly healthy food can cause so much trouble for a woman.

TAKE HEED AND TELL ALL THE FEMALES IN YOUR LIFE!!!
Soya is not what you think!!!


This is my true story, nothing altered. These are facts, as they relate to my experience, my opinions are based on what I've read and felt,  I am relating them to warn other young health-conscious women who are unwittingly harming themselves.
In 1989, I graduated from high school in Texas and couldn't wait to hit the big college city. One of the changes I wanted to make was to eat healthier. Once I moved to health-conscious Austin , Texas , I began to fortify my body with the best and healthiest foods I could find. Tofu was the main ingredient in every healthy dish and I bought soya milk almost every day.
  I used it for everything from cereal to smoothies or just to drink for a quick snack. I bought soya muffins, miso soup wth tofu, soyabeans,soyabean sprouts, etc.All the literature in all the health and fitness magazines said that soya protected you against everything from heart disease to bosom cancer. It was the magical isoflavones,the estrogen-like hormones that all worked to help you stay young and healthy. I looked great, I was working out all the time, but my menstrual cycle was off.
At 20, I started taking birth control pills to regulate my menstrual cycle. In addition to this I began to suffer from painful periods. I began to get puffy, it was as though I was losing my muscle tone. I began to suffer from depression and getting hot flashes. I mistook all this for PMS since my periods were irregular. By the time I was 25, my periods were so bad I couldn't walk. The birth control pill never made them regular or less painful so I decided to stop taking them. I went on like this for another two years until realized my pain wasn't normal.
At 27, my gynecologist found two cysts in my uterus. Both were the size of tennis balls. I went through surgery to have them removed and thank God they were benign. The gynecologist
told me to go back on birth control pills. I didn't.In 1998, he discovered a lump in my bosom. Again, I went through surgery and again it was benign. In November 2000 my glands swelled up and my gums became inflamed. Thinking I had a tooth infection I went to the dentist who told me that teeth were not the problem. After a dose of antibiotics the swelling still did not go down.
At this point I could feel a tiny nodule on the right side of my neck. I told my mother I had thyroid trouble. She thinks I was being silly. No one in the family suffered from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch I saw a specialist who diagnosed me with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. After a series of tests he told me it was cancer. My fiance and I sat stunned.
We were not prepared and I was so scared. We scheduled surgery right away.The specialist told us that it would only be after the operation that a pathologist would be able to tell us for sure if it was cancer. They found a tumor at my right lobe composed of irregular cells and another smaller tumor growing on the left, so the entire thyroid was removed. They told me that after undergoing radioactive iodine I would be safe and assured me that I could live a long life. After treatment I began to search for the cause of all these problems. I never once thought it could be all the soya I had consumed for nearly ten years. After all, soya is healthy.
I came upon a web page that linked thyroid problems to soya intake and the conspiracy of soya marketed as a health food. This was insane, afterall; the health and fitness magazines had said nothing about soya being harmful. I visited a herbalist who was diagnosed with thyroid cancer in 1985. She informed me that soya was the culprit. She had a hysterectomy due to cysts and other uterine problems. A few months later another acquaintance who had consumed soya came down with thyroid cancer. A girl in England I met through the internet in a thyroid cancer
forum had just undergone surgery and she was only 19.What was going on?
bosom cancer is linked to estrogen. What mimics estrogen in the female body, SOYA! But I never suspected soya because until now I never once found a single article that stated soya could be
dangerous. Women who took soya prior to thyroid problems will continue to take it after if they are not aware of what soya actually does what it contains and how it reacts in the female body. I think this is the reason that women with thyroid cancer often develop bosom cance later.
My co-worker is big into soya and I see her losing hair and gaining weight despite a walking workout during her break and after work, and apples and oranges for lunch. She just had cysts removed from her uterus too. I warn her to stay off soya. I refer her to websites but until it is on the evening news on all four networks, women will suffer. Since the thyroidectomy, I do not touch soya, haven't for two years.
Dear readers, please use my story in any way you can. There are so many young girls who are consuming soya because they think they are taking care of themselves, and women taking soya because they want to be healthy. It is so unfair that the information about the dangers of soya  isn't more widely circulated. It is sad. There are many out there who feel this way and it is a terrible blow when you realize you are not as healthy as you thought and that the information that you depended on was wrong.
Some References
http://www.haelan. co.uk/Wholefood- Soya.shtml
http://www.haelan. co.uk/Wholefood- Soya, shtml
http://www.netlink. de/gen/Zeitung/ 2000/000813. html
http://www.netlink. de/gen/Zeitung/ 2000/000813. html
http://www.biotech- info.net/ soya.html
http://www.biotech-info.net/soya.html

What a pathetic story oge. I'm glad to know you are ok now. I was into soya when i was much younger,thank God i didnt go farther than i did. Pls,which part of Abuja are u in? I'd like to meet with u. If u dont mind send ur nö. Thanx.

@Nne
The story did not happen to me o.
This was a mail sent to me by a colleague.
I stay in garki 2, but you know i cant post my number here.
Thanks.

wow very useful info, tanks

I don't know if soyabean is the cause of my thyroid problems, but i know i took a lot of soya when i was very young then the period my neck started swelling i took soya. It really has a lot of effect on WOMEN.I have to be on drugs for 2,3,months to make me stable before the next step is taken. WOMEN have to know that soya is not good for them at all.

Sori am a little confused, is soya the same thing as soy.

ubiaa5:

Sori am a little confused, is soya the same thing as soy.

Yes o.

Does this apply to guys as well? How does intake of Soya affect us?

Does this apply to guys as well? How does intake of Soya affect us?

Yes it does it means that soy produces more estrogen in a man's body and it affects him that his testerone levels drop affecting his body in negative ways like hair loss,reduction in genital size,early andropause,mood swings etc.Soy is garbage-0 !