Something I have not talked about here or other places. There are a select few outside of my family that know the health issues I’ve been having. It isn’t that I don’t want people to know, just never felt it was necessary to go into it. So, I’ll give a brief history. For years, I’ve had trouble when I eat. It was an annoyance, and in 2010, it finally came to a point that it was interfering with my life to a point that I needed to see a doctor about it. Since then, they haven’t been able to figure out why. Last summer, I start suffering more pain and nausea than normal. I wound up in the Emergency Room because of it. It then got worse over the next few weeks, and finally settled a little in the fall. During that few week time period (maybe 6 weeks?) I lost 30 lbs. My doctors were not happy about that. I have for the most part, stopped losing weight and kept it steady, but I still have the pain and nausea and pretty have been trying to just live with it. All my tests kept coming up negative. Allergy tests came up negative, and so on. They finally did a video capsule test where I had to swallow a digital camera that took 2 pictures a second to examine my system. They thought they saw two possible bulges in my intestine and sent me to a specialist. I saw that specialist this past week. Everything is fine. No bulges, just muscles. So, what next? She recommended some special diets for me to try, as she felt that I was just sensitive to certain foods. Ok, I’ve done it before, I’ll do it again.
Here’s the eye opening part. Part of the special diet was the first day or two, pure liquid diet with the exception that I could have 6 saltine crackers during the day. Was instructed to check the ingredients. Now, I’m going to pause here for a moment and mention that years ago, I discovered that I did not do well with soy products. I found out when I was fed Tofu and it made me feel sick. I thought it was the texture of it, but just stayed away from soy as a precaution. Ok, back to present day… I went looking for white bread (another approved item was 1 slice of white toast a day for a few days) and looked the ingredients. Every single loaf of bread, white or whole grain, or Italian, sourdough, etc, had soy flour or soy oil, or both. Hmmmm, ok, looks like I’ll have to bake bread now. Went to the cracker aisle to get saltines. Guess what? Saltines were made with Soy flour. Ok, have to make my own saltines.
I came home and we started looking at some basic items in our pantry. I also went online and looked for more information. Here is a list of items that have Soy in some way or another, that I found from this site:
Akara
Bulking Agent
Boullion
Carob
Edamame
Emulsifiers (if unspecified)
Gum Arabic
Guar Gum
Hydrolyzed Vegetable Protein or Hydrolyzed Protein (HVP)
Isoflavones
Isolated Soy Protein
Isolates
Kinako
Kouridofu
Lecithin
Miso
Mono and Diglycerides
Mono Sodium Glutamates (MSG)
Natto
Natural, Organic or Artificial Flavors (if the flavor isn’t listed in brackets beside it then it’s most likely soy-based)
Olean
Protein
Shoyu Sauce
Soja
Soy (anything with this term included)
Soybeans
Soy Oil (Crisco, Pam Spray etc)
Soy Protein Concentrate
Tamari
Tempeh
Teriyaki
Textured Soy Flour (TSF)
Textured Soy Protein (TSP)
Textured Plant Protein (TVP)
Thickener
Tofu
Tofutti
Unspecified Sprouts
Vegetable Broth
Vegetable Gum
Vegetable Paste
Vegetable Protein
Vegetable Oil
Vegetable Shortening
Vegetable Starch
Vitamin E
Yuba
Instant coffee
Margarine
Canned tuna
Mayonnaise
Now, last night, hubby and I were talking about all this. One of the items we were shocked that had soy? Peanut butter. yes, Jif peanut butter uses soy oil to make its peanut butter.
So, while my family has tried to be aware of what we’ve been eating, we were not aware enough. So, my first step is to remove all soy from my diet completely to see if I start doing better. It will take time as I’ve had it in my system for a long time. And who knows, maybe this is not the cause of all my trouble. But I know it isn’t helping.
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