The order of phoenix trailer is out! :D It looks hilarious. But it only comes out on 13 July 2007. @*$&@&@*@$# Why show the trailer when it will only come out like hundreds of days away?
I got this story from my email. Interesting. Lots of health tips. :D
THIS ARTICLE IS THRU THE KIND COURTESY OF MS SUREKHA RAMCHANDANI.
ONE WOMAN'S STORY ON SOYA.
Something to take note of. This is my true story, nothing altered. These are facts as they relate to my experieince, my opinions based on what I have>read & felt. I am relating them to warn other young health-conscious women who are unwittingly harming themselves.
In 1989, I graduated from high school in Texas & couldn't wat to hit the big college city. One of the changes I wanted to make was to eat healthier. Once I moved to health-conscious Austin, Texas, I began to fortify my body with the best & healthiest foods I could find. Tofu was the main ingredient in every healthy dish & I bought soya milk almost everyday & used it for everything from cereal to smoothies or just to drink for a quick snack. I bought soya muffins, miso soup with tofu, soybeans, soybean sprouts, etc. All the literature in all the health & fitness magazines said that soya protected you against everything from heart disease to breast cancer. It was the magical isoflavones, the estrogen-like hormones that all worked to help you stay young & healthy. I looked great, I was working out all the time, but my menstrual cycle was off. At 20, I started taking birth control pills to regulate my menstrual cycle. In addition to this, I began to suffer from painful periods. I began to get puffy, it was as though I was losing my muscle tone. I began to suffer from depression & getting hot flushes. I mistook all this for PMS since my periods were irregular. By the time I was 25, my periods were so bad I couldn't walk. The birth control pills never made them regular or less painful so I decided to stop taking them. I went on like this for another 2 years until I realized my pain wasn't normal. At 27, my gynecologist found 2 cysts in my uterus. Both were the size of tennis balls. I went through surgery to have them remoced & thank God they were benign. The gynecologist told me to go back on birth control pills. I didn't. In 1998, he discovered a lump in my breast. Again, I went through surgery & again it was benign. In November 2000, my glands swelled up & my gums became inflamed. Thinking I had a tooth infection, I went to the dentist, who told me that teeth were not the problem. After a dose of antibiotics, the swelling still did not go down. At this point, I could feel a tiny nodule on the right side of my neck. I told my mother I had thyroid trouble. She thought I was being silly. No one in the family suffered from thyroid trouble. Going on a hunch, I saw a specialist who diagnosed me with Papillary Thyroid Carcinoma. After a series of tests, he told me it was cancer. My fiance & I sat stunned. We were not prepared and I was so scared. We scheduled surgery right away. The specialist told us that it would only be after the operation that a pathologist would be able to tell us for sure if it was cancer. They found a tumor in my right lobe composed of irregular cells & another smaller tumor growing on the left, so the entire thyroid was removed. They told me that after undergoing radioactive iodine I would be safe & assured me that I could live a long life. After treatment, I began to search for the cause of all these problems. I never once thought it could be all the soya I had consumed for nearly 10 years. After all, soya is healthy. I came upon a webpage that linked thyroid problems to soya intake & the conspiracy of soya marketed as health food when in fact, it is only a toxic by-product of the vegetabel oil industry. This was insane. After all, the heath & fitness magazines had said nothing about soya being harmful. I visited a herbalist who was diagnosed with thyroid cances in 1985. She informed me that soya was the culprit. She had a hysterectomy due to cysts & other uterine problems. A few months later, another acquaintance who had consumed soya came down with thyroid cancer. A girl in England I met through the Internet in a thyroid cancer forum had just undergone surgery & she was only 19. What was going on???? Breast cancer is linked to estrogen. What mimics estrogen in the female body? SOYA! But I never suspected soya because until now I never once found a single article that stated soya could be dangerous. Women who took soya prior to thyroid problems will continue to take it after if they are not aware of what soya actually does, what it contains & how it reacts in the female body. I think this is the reason that women with thyroid cancer often develop breast cancer later. My co-worker is big into soya & I see her losing hair & gaining weight despite a walking workout during her break & after work, and apples & oranges for lunch. She just had cysts removed from her uterus too. I warned her to stay off soya. I referred her to websites but until it is on the evening news on all four networks, women will suffer. Since the thyroidectomy, I do not touch soya, and I haven't for 2 years.
Dear readers, please use my story in any way you can. There are so many young girls who are consuming soya because they think they are taking care of themselves, & women are taking soya because they want to be healthy. It is so unfair that the information about the dangers of soya isn't more widely circulated. It is sad. There are many out there who feel this way & it is a terrible blow when you realize you are not as healthy as you though & that the information that you depended on was wrong.
O.o I didn't know there's such a thing called thyroid cancer. I think every part of your body is susceptible to cancer then, even your scalp.
