According to a story running on the UPI News site on July 5, 2008 the act of eating soy may contribute to memory loss according to current studies done by British experts.

 

Researchers from England’s Loughborough and Oxford Universities have determined that people who eat soy twice a day have about 20% less memory function than those who do not eat soy as often. Vegetarians and elderly females are most susceptible to this memory mal-function situation.

 

Click here to see the full UPI News story about this issue.

 

Well – darn. Why are these people messing with our soy? What are we supposed to eat if soy lands on the taboo list along with everything else? Here’s where we are today:

 

~ Grains are taboo because the costs are rising faster than our budgets are. Grains are now needed for energy production while global warming is helping to destroy grain crops globally. Prices go up as supply goes down. Grains are moving onto the “not an option” list in many homes.

 

~ Veggies are all on the salmonella recall list this week, aren’t they? There was that tomato salmonella problem, that turned out not to be caused by tomato, that nobody knows what might be causing it today. Tomato plants are a member of the fruit family, and this almost indicates that both veggies and fruits should be on the “not” list until somebody figures out why hundreds of people are getting sick.

 

~ Meat is a controversial issue… But, even if you do eat meat, you can’t eat it exclusively as your only source of diet.  

 

All of this governmental monitoring of food leaves me a bit annoyed. We’re told what to buy, what to eat, when to throw our food out, and normally we’re told all of these things spaced out in between fast food commercials that explain how we need to treat ourselves to brand “x” if we want to find real happiness.

 

During the tomato salmonella scare this country destroyed thousands of pounds of good food in an effort to keep the US safe; while so many are starving on this planet. Salmonella is destroyed when people cook their food. If we didn’t want the food, shouldn’t it have been offered to those that did want it?

 

Well… phooey. This new soy news is all too thought provoking. I better go get out my spoon and finish off my soy ice cream before I forget where I left that spoon last. Or worse!!! Forget that I have ice cream to eat?

I keep hearing all this garbage about soy, and how "bad" it is...but ok, worst of a few evils then, right?!  Seriously.  Too much of ANYTHING is bad!!!  :)

Yep.  I agree. Any more, you can find anything that you want to read on the internet. The first soy article will sing praises, the next will scare you half to death, and the last one will just be a rumor of recall so that there's no reason to fret soy any more.

 

We live in a strange, strange, world right now.  There's simply too many conflicting truths all being promoted as accurate at once for any of us to keep up with. 

 

Scientists are probably right in what they are finding -- even when those rights are opposites. Which in a way is nice. When everybody is right, that allows us to choose our own best road to follow. 

 

Laughing!!! Okay, I've finished up my ice cream for breakfast and I am beginning to eye-ball the cantaloup for lunch... Who wants a slice?

MMmmmm cantaloup sounds delicous right now and you can never go wrong with a slice of organic cantaloup :)

Yummy!!! Pass the cantaloup please?