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Originally Posted by Spirittap  Hey Steve.
I was wondering if you noticed any bodily changes since you've become vegan. I'm also wondering how much Soy you are consuming.
The reason i'm asking is because i've read a lot good and bad things on Soy. Bad things such as brain shrinkage and soy killing the libido.
I've been a vegetarian for a month now, but i'm really close to being vegan. I consume 3 glasses of soy milk per day and eat 2 meals of soy simulated meat per day. Personally i've been feeling really good. |
I've been wondering the same thing myself. Over the holidays I'll be working through my final course (Vegeterian Diet) for my Nutritionist certificate, but I already believe a vegetarian diet is superior to a meat based one. However, Soy I still don't know about. I too have heard good and bad things.
I do wonder though if the "bad" stuff such us it killing your libido is just propaganda by meat eaters because it's easy to sell and spread a story which says that if you don't eat meat, you're not a "man". It's like images of a caveman tearing into a giant piece of meat and ripping it apart show us what a "real man" should eat, versus a guy sitting at a table and eating a salad.
On a related note, I was watching a UFC match the other day. I can't remember the names of the fighters, but one of the fighters was an American guy born and raised on a farm who was HUGE for his weight and trained on the farm by pulling tractor tires and doing farm related stuff. He was a BIG BOY. He went up against another fighter who was a "city guy" who was vegan, and much smaller than him in size (same weight class though). They were saying that the farmer guy might overpower and obliterate the other guy. The fight ended in the beginning of the first round with the farmer dude losing the fight.
It was just really interesting how the whole thing was portrayed. They almost made it sound like it was the wholesome meat-eating farmer dude, against this vegan guy and how the farmer dude is going to whoop his butt. Except that it didn't end up that way.
I kind of wonder if that is the real bias behind the whole negative Soy thing.
Although, I do know that a lot of Soy is Genetically Modified.
I too would like to hear your opinion on it Steve.