I've been researching coconut oil due to my thyroid problems, and stumbled upon this:



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?

Sheri

Hi nitrovixen,

I think it is soya bean oil they are talking about rather than soy products which contain the whole bean. The motto of this is don't cook with corn or soya bean oil - use olive oil instead.

Just my two pence worth,

Robert

I eat soy regularly in various forms - flour, tofu, snacks.....doesn't seem to stall or make me gain.

Well that's good to know.. I was wondering if it was causing my stall but it must be something else! Thanks for the input!

Sheri

Here's an article with some info on soy and thyroid.

www.thyroid.about.com/library/weekly/aa041202a.htm?terms=soy

I try to stay away from too much soy myself. A lot of the health claims made about soy are turning out not to be true, especially for women.

Here's a few more articles.

www.westonaprice.org/myths_truths/myths_truths_soy.html

www.westonaprice.org/soy/soy_alert.html

Hope this helps.

Judyann: wow! That is scary. It makes me want to avoid soy altogether.. I favor any whey protein over soy, and try not to eat it. My mom warned me when I tried to do the vegan thing for about two weeks.. (sheepish grin inserted here)
My friend tried to tell me how unhealthy meat was and how our bodies weren't meant to digest meat! typical. It makes me laugh now!!
I hope she lives past 35 eating all her soy this-and-that, overprocessed, sugar and carb filled "foods"

WOW! How uninformed is that! Our bodies are prefectly adapted to eating meat. Being a vegetarian, I am going against my species' evolution. Your friend needs to get a hold of a basic physical anthropology text book.

As far as the soy thing goes-I am still reading up on it, but it seems that there is a big debate going on. Some people point out the problem is with unprocessed soy-soy has to go through a procedure that eliminates the problem chemicals. I agree that too much is probably not good-but there is a difference in soy products and how they are produced. My doctor said many of the studies are pretty inconclusive and just not to go overboard with it.

I am still slogging through experiments, case studies and commentaries though.

Hi Paleoanth!
You are just a bottomless well of information! If I ever have a question about Anything I'm going to ask you!

My friend is a little loopy about a lot of things.. she's also a self proclaimed "rabid feminist" and has some pretty quirky ideas about things... but she has a heart of gold! She pleaded with me to not do Low Carb because she thought it was really unhealthy. I haven't talked to her in a long time but next time it comes up I'm going to be sure and have a little debate with her over how to really be healthy! Vegans don't even look healthy.. they are usually emaciated, with big black circles under their eyes and pale, pasty skin! (Wait, the pale part might be due to the lack of sunshine here in Seattle!)

I don't think I'll be buying any soy milk in the near future, nonetheless.

sheri