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Doctor Warns: [1] Eat This and You’ll Look 5 Years Older

Posted By Dr. Mercola | February 19 2011 | 177,620 views

We raised sheep for quite a few years.

Like all sheep growers, we had problems with orphan lambs.  I won’t go into the reasons why and what the causes of that were.  Problems with orphan lambs are common to all sheep operations.

We had dealings with a Hutterite colony, who came to us for culled ewes to introduce a bit of variety into the diet of the people on their colony.  The head-man of the colony told me that they had once raised sheep, too.  He asked me what we did about orphan lambs and the milk-replacer we needed to raise them.

I told him that we used a commercial soy-bean preparation (at a cost of about $45 a lamb that we brought to market).  He asked how that worked out for us.  I told him, and he advised that we use goats to produce the milk we needed for for our orphan lambs.

We never had had good luck with using that commercial milk replacer, even though the brand we bought seemed to be the one with the fewest problems of all that we had used.  The lambs did not do well on that milk replacer, and the mortality rate was unacceptably high.  The lambs on milk replacer that survived did not thrive and were always the last of any lamb crop we sold.

We bought a few goats, started milking them, used fresh goats milk and, when necessary, froze excess milk, thawed frozen goats milk to feed our orphan lambs and made cheese from the rest.  Our problems were over.  All lambs whom we fed that milk did very well, with no adverse health effects.

So much for that, but ever since then I kept my eyes open for any news on nutrition involving soy-beans.  There is quite a bit on unhealthy side effects caused by soy-beans.  An example of that is what Dr. Mercola presents at the web page identified in the beginning of this message (don’t neglect to watch the video).

Another example that I came across a few years ago is this:

Soy Can Lead to Kidney Stones, Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry, September 2001

[2] Full Story

Keep in mind that no information is being presented by Dr. Mercola that proves that it is genetically modified soy-beans or corn that cause problems.  All he produced are assertions.  Although those may be correct, he produced very little evidence that could be used to lay the blame on genetically modified foods.  Most definitely, he produced no evidence that shows how control-groups did on feed derived from foods that came from sources not genetically modified.

However, the information in the article in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry and what we found with the milk replacer shows that soy-bean-derived foods can be bad.  Moreover, I distinctly recall that, when reading about animal nutrition in the early 1970s (when no genetically modified foods were yet available), feed corn was bad as an animal feed, especially for hogs, when it was not mixed with other plant proteins.  The reason for that is that corn protein lacks an important amino acid, lysine.  Every animal nutritionist should know about that.  Any livestock producer in the business of making money knows about it and formulates the feed rations he feeds to his animals accordingly.

The problems that Dr. Mercola’s video reports on and that those hog producers experienced are in my opinion caused not necessarily by genetically modified feed-corn but could have been caused by the lack of lysine in the hog rations that had been used.

Thought you needed to know, but the most important aspect of the issue with tofu is this:

If you wish to eat well without exposing yourself to the risks posed by soy-based food products, it may be wise to make use of the advice offered in the following.

Cartoon from [3] townhall.com

Enjoy, Walter