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Are We Experimenting on Our Children with Soy Formula?

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Re: Are We Experimenting on Our Children with Soy Formula?

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at 18 months she should be ready to switch over entirely. Soy would not be appropriate for a child unless she has milk allergies. Feed her whole milk, it's incredibly important for her brain development.

> Feed her whole milk, it's incredibly important for her brain development. No, no it's not.

The fats in whole milk are, but you can get the appropriate fats from other sources.

Re: Are We Experimenting on Our Children with Soy Formula?

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Of course. My daughter is 18 months old and fed exclusively with breast milk. We want to wean her soon, so we are looking for alternatives.

at 18 months she should be ready to switch over entirely. Soy would not be appropriate for a child unless she has milk allergies. Feed her whole milk, it's incredibly important for her brain development.

You do realize that the push to condition consumers to a heavily dairy based diet is a result of industry lobbying, right?

Re: Are We Experimenting on Our Children with Soy Formula?

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Most animal feed is soy-based. What effect does that have? Also, why would a vegan/vegetarian be against breast milk exactly? And finally: does anyone have any info on the effect of large soy consumption on males? I've been vegetarian for 6 months and trying to go vegan (mostly for past 1.5 months) so my soy consumption is at an all time high. Thanks!

There are a lot of studies on soy consumption. The short version is that soy is healthy up to a certain point, so it's fine to make it part of your diet as long as you don't overdo it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/how-much-soy-is-too-much/

Re: Are We Experimenting on Our Children with Soy Formula?

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at 18 months she should be ready to switch over entirely. Soy would not be appropriate for a child unless she has milk allergies. Feed her whole milk, it's incredibly important for her brain development.

> Feed her whole milk, it's incredibly important for her brain development. No, no it's not.

It absolutely is. We have evolved to eat cooked food and drink milk.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/human_evolu...

https://www.choosemyplate.gov/dairy-nutrients-health

http://www.idfa.org/news-views/media-kits/milk/importance-of...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2039733/

Re: Are We Experimenting on Our Children with Soy Formula?

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Of course. My daughter is 18 months old and fed exclusively with breast milk. We want to wean her soon, so we are looking for alternatives.

at 18 months she should be ready to switch over entirely. Soy would not be appropriate for a child unless she has milk allergies. Feed her whole milk, it's incredibly important for her brain development.

Since when humans need cows milk to develop their brain? Did you know that a significant part of the human population is lactose intolerant?

Re: Are We Experimenting on Our Children with Soy Formula?

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Something to note is that 93 percent of soy grown in the United States is genetically modified [0]. [0]: https://www.ers.usda.gov/data-products/adoption-of-genetical...

Also worth noting what kind of GE we're talking about: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetically_modified_soybean tl;dr: mostly pesticide resistance. That has significant environmental/economic consequences, but those edits (probably) don't change how soy interacts with endocrine receptors.

>That has significant environmental/economic consequences, but those edits (probably) don't change how soy interacts with endocrine receptors.

Pesticide resistant crops being completely doused in glyphosate right before harvest probably does have an impact on health though.

http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/ITX_2013_06_04_Seneff.pdf

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