Thu, Mar-27-03, 19:34
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Plan: BFL
Stats: 151/142/?
BF:35%/23%/15%
Progress: 5%
Location: Seattle
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soy=weight gain?
I've been researching coconut oil due to my thyroid problems, and stumbled upon this:
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Farmers are always looking for ways to fatten their livestock because bigger animals bring bigger profits. Fats and oils are used as additive in animal feed to quickly pack on weight in preparing them for market. Saturated fat seems like a good choice to fatten up livestock so pig farmers tired to feed coconut products to their animals for this purpose, but when it was added to the animal feed, the pigs lost weight! (15) Farmers found that the high polyunsaturated oil content of corn and soybeans quickly did what the coconut oil couldn’t. Animals fed corn and soybeans packed on pounds quickly and easily. The reason these oils worked so well is that their oils suppressed thyroid function, decreasing the animal’s metabolic rate. Soybeans are particularly bad because of the goitrogens (anti-thyroid chemicals) they contain. (16-17) They could eat less food and gain more weight! Many people are in a similar situation. Every time we eat polyunsaturated oils, our thyroid gland is assaulted and loses its ability to function normally. Weight gain is one of the consequences.
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It's from http://www.coconut-info.com/weight-loss.htm
Now I'm afraid to eat soy products! Tons of my LC foods have soy. We all know corn causes weight gain because of the starch, but soy? Yikes!
Has anybody had trouble with weight gain or stall because of soy?
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