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Letters

yourself. The prisoners are an unfortu- me. I hadn’t thought soy would be in I reject the notion that babies should
nate control group that could change the vitamins, probiotics and fresh baked practice coordination by playing with
food industry in the U.S. In Canada and bread, but it is. There is no label for soy food. They get coordination all day by
Europe, soy flour, “protein” and other notification required and no soy-free playing with pots and pans (lids make
soy derivatives are recognized as dan- area in stores. This has to change. The delightful sounds as do wooden spoons
gerous and the hype as a fraud. But in food industry is poisoning us and our on salad bowls), egg beaters, toys and
the U.S., the soy industry is subsidized children to improve their bottom line. pets.
by the government and as a result soy is Soy is a fraud and I hope you and your By the way, our very first visit
the cheapest filler American companies clients prevail. They will remain ill long to a physician came when one of our
can put in foods. after the soy is gone. teenagers got strep throat. I had gone
The soybean is on the FDA’s poison- Name withheld for a three-week visit to see my mother
ous plant list for good reason. The stories in Europe, during which time he had
of Chinese people eating it and benefit- LIMITED-TIME, LIMITED-BUDGET slipped into junk food. All four grew
ing from it as a source of protein are a FEEDING SYSTEM into athletic individuals—who love
lie. The only time people in China ate Reading the article by Jen Allbrit- vegetables and WAPF!
soybeans as a source of calories (rather ton on baby-led weaning (Winter, 2009), Treska Lindsey
than just as a flavoring) throughout the I cringed a little. In the early 1950s (be- Flat Rock, North Carolina
centuries was during times of starva- fore I discovered Nutrition and Physi-
tion. And then, they fermented it before cal Degeneration), we were a dirt poor IODINE OVERDOSE?
consuming it, knowing it was poisonous. but health-conscious couple with more In response to your article on iodine
The inmate soyfood victims know children than we had planned. To watch (Summer, 2009) I wanted to let you
that they will be painfully sick—heart babies play with food was not an option; know of my own iodine experience.
attack sick—every single day. I went neither was spreading out a buffet for At the time I started iodine I was
on the soy-based Nutrisystem for two them to pick from. We did not have the twenty-six years old, one hundred
weeks. I felt like my heart was attacking luxury of time. seventy-five pounds with no chronic
me, usually about 3 a.m. Vomiting was In the interim, roughly between illnesses that I know of, except for
violent. It took six months to remove all weaning and table food, here is the low adrenal function (now diagnosed
of the soy from my diet and life. Doc- system I came up with: the babies got through cortisol tests, etc.). I was taking
tors were unable to help because the four bottles of freshly milked goat milk a multivitamin from Purity Products,
dangers of soy are kept hidden in the a day. One bottle had a cereal blended plus EPA+DHA fish oil (not cod liver
United States. Nutrisystem counselors in it, one had a yellow vegetable blended oil) and flaxseed (2 tablespoons) plus
state they have never heard of these in it, one had a green vegetable in it (all magnesium citrate.
symptoms before, yet complaints similar vegetables home grown), and one bottle My basal temperature was low,
to those of the prisoners are all over the had fruit. An egg yolk (from our hens) around 96.4 over several days. After be-
internet. was added to one of the bottles as well ginning four drops of Iosol (a solution of
In conducting my own research I as some cod liver oil. The opening in the iodine and ammonium iodide in water)
learned that soy poisoning takes twenty- baby bottle was widened as needed. per day (1,830 mg iodine per drop), I
four hours to manifest its symptoms. Yes, I know, cereals should prefer- soon noticed a swelling sensation in my
The body produces an army of hista- ably be chewed, but pretty soon our neck, roughly in the area of my thyroid.
mine compounds that will attack your children held their own buttered toast, I stopped the Iosol. The distress went
next soy protein intake. chicken leg, etc. There never was coax- away, but came back in about a week.
Reading labels is now a habit for ing at the table. I resumed Iosol at one drop a day, and
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