Once upon a time, my baby sister (who is not such a baby any more) was going through a childhood period of lactose intolerance. Some kids do these things.
Anyway, because her language wasn’t quite up to the awesome skill levels of her sister two years her senior, she had some difficulties with some semantic tasks. Like using words that sounded similar in the wrong place, with cuteness generally ensuing.
Soil milk, being the name she gave to soy milk. At the time, I think I agreed, as the Seventh day Adventist church, aka Sanitarium, hadn’t quite developed So Good soy milk to taste much better than potting mix.
It seems to have evolved, and so I’m trialling it for awhile, in my tea and coffee, on my oats. Just mucking around with the dairy in my diet to see if that helps with my annoying gut and perhaps my general health. I don’t think it will hurt me (unlike chelation for autistic kids) so I may as well. :) Wish me luck with the soil milk?
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Yeah, So Good is MUCH better than it used to be. Before it became tolerable I drank Vitasoy. The chocolate Vitasoy (the fridge stuff, not the shelf stuff) is awesome (from a forced soy drinker perspective).
Just as with everything else, there are some people who really don’t think soy is good for you, but there are plenty of people who think we aren’t built to drink cow’s milk. Personally, I think westerners are, due to many evolved years of tolerance… but the point is, everything gives you cancer, but as far as trusted research suggests thus far, soy milk isn’t a bigger culprit than most of the other stuff we eat.
*nods* I remember the soy stuff coming out a few years ago re cancer. Something along the lines of, it’s good for you, but if you already HAVE cancer, it may not be so good, but that the more processed pruducts like soy sauce were better than less processed. Something like that.
Yeah, there’s stuff in it that some think may mimic the act of estrogen, estrogen feeds some cancers such as some form of breast cancers and ovarian cancer. However I’m not sure that the amount of this supposed mimicking chemical is anywhere near the levels of things like the hormone replacement therapy prescribed to women post-menopause.
Soy milk itself is pretty heavily processed. Basically the stuff that is squished out of the soy bean has a component in it which inhibits protein digestion – something you really don’t want. So by the time they’re done with it, it pretty vaguely resembles what came out of the bean. Just check the ingredients list.