TO SOY OR NOT TO SOY? The answer can be yes if the source is right. Choose Foods Choose Life: Select Ezekiel bread, organic Miso to make soup, or other whole, organic sprouted or fermented soy such as Wildwood tofu. More is not always better, nor is high heated, genetically modified, or highly processed soy.
Choose less Sugar and less Fructose. Fructose goes to the liver and is converted to triglyceride cholesterol; the breakdown product is uric acid.
Why eat soy and reduce fructose? After 15 days of eating fructose vs. starch as carb, rats fed fructose had insulin resistance and inflammatory responses in the kidney. Genistein (a soy component) reduced inflammation, and structural changes: “basement membrane thickening, reduction in podocyte number and loss of glomerular filtration barrier integrity. These findings suggest that genistein prevents inflammation, fibrosis and early nephropathic changes in fructose-fed insulin resistant rats.”
Eur J Pharacol, 2011 Sep 30; 667 (1-3): 355
FAT OR NO FAT? Right fat is the answer. Choose Foods Choose Life: Eat fish and flax; and avoid other polyunsaturated oils and foods with them. If you eat meat or fats from meat such as butter, milk, cheese be sure the animal has been eating a high omega 3 diet of foliage rather than a high Omega-6 diet of corn because the fats are conveyed to you. Food labels with 5g of an unbalanced Polyunsaturated fat, rather than .5g, in a serving theoretically would need about 5 fish oils capsules to rebalance Omega 3 and 6.
Why Balanced Omega 6 to 3? Study calorie controlled mouse diet over 3 generations showed feeding high omega 6 vs high omega 3 diet up regulates the stearyl-coenzyme A desaturase 1 (Scd1) production gene increasingly over 3 generations; that increases triglyceride levels and leads to obesity, liver heart and kidney dysfunction. Cardiovasc Psychiatry Neurol. 2009; 2009: 867041.
