Got Soy?

[Penny_Plinker]

My husband has to get up several times at night to urinate and he said it was probably his prostate. So i started researching it and i found some articles that say that men should eat soy products for prostate health because that's what the Japaneese eat and they rarely die from prostate cancer. And the other good thing is that what protects the prostate will also protect women from breast cancer so it's good for a man and woman to both eat the same soy foods but men sometimes think soy is some kind of woman's food.

I tried to get him to drink soy milk in his coffee but he doesn't like it in his coffee. He will drink it straight, though (and it's manly, alright, when he swigs it out of the carton) I like soy milk better than regular milk. Tofu isn't something one would crave, but we can both tolerate it cut up and browned and mixed in with stir fried vegetables.

Anyway, i was just surprised that men benefit from soy and thought it was worth mentioning.

Penny

[Deberosa]

Tomatoes are supposed to be good for the prostrate too.

[nancy1340]

I would suggest you Google "The Dangers of Soy".
Soy is not the healthy food that we are being brain washed into believing.

[Penny_Plinker]

Hi Nancy,

I'm glad you suggested a search on the dangers of soy. Who'd of thought? Well it's back to the drawing board...or tomatoes then.

Thanks ladies. We didn't like it THAT well anyhow.

Penny

[nancy1340]

Penny, it's just like with anything else. A little is good and a lot is not. Moderation in all things.

[PK.]

I've been eating soybeans all my life, I love the things. We go out and hand pick a few pounds in late summer and dry them with a little salt. Better than peanuts.

[chloe3388]

Penny you might try Saw Palmetto for your hubby's problem. My Dad takes it and seems to have helped.

[Diamon_Girl]

However, you can truely google "dangers in..." whatever you want and will find good and bad in EVERY food. Sugar is bad for you, beef is bad for you, even tomatoes if not cooked and handled properly can be deadly.
I used to be a vegetarian and like PK have eaten soy for many years. It's YUMMY! Fresh soybeans, boiled in the pods are one of my family's favorite side dishes! It's a yummy yummy treat!
There's good and bad in everything, don't be afraid to try soy!

[rAcErRicK]

Saw palmetto berries are good for that, but they taste terrible. You can buy capsules with saw palmetto in W-M, reasonable. An old Seminole indian told my grandfather about them many years ago. I have even pinned my urologist down about them, as I have taken them for years, and my PSA test is better than his, he says "keep taking them". I read recently that avacado pears have the same thing that the saw palmetto berries have, and more of it, so they are good also.

Hope your toe is better Penny, that thing looked really bad.
Looking at yours made mine hurt, sympathy pain maybe ?

My doc says every man should be very aware of prostate condition, especially after 50. It's one of our main enemies.

[Penny_Plinker]

Thanks for the different opinions on the soy products. Some of the information scared me away from using soy, but i did like the soy milk and might try it again in moderation. Also, thanks for the info on saw palmetta, capsules would work better with him.

rAcErRicK thanks for asking about my ingrown nail. By using the method suggested by DM, that horrid toe has healed up and it looks almost normal. The method was to pack cotton under the nail as full as i could bear. I did that then soaked iodine into the cotton and it soon showed dramatic improvement. A total cure that let me avoid the foot doctor. Because here is what happens when you get an ingrown professionally done. They inject your toe first to numb it. Does a great job of numbing it but when they stab you with that needle it feels like they drove a 6-penny nail in your toe. Then after they cut/burn that nail edge off the worse part is still to come. YOU, the patient, has to soak the foot 3x a day for a half hour for two to three weeks straight. If you're an active person, you don't have time to sit with your foot in a pan of water. You also have to take a rough washcloth and RUB the raw, sore area where they just removed the nail and doing that hurts worse then the ingrown nail EVER hurt. That is done to prevent the nail from growing back. So, after the foot doctor spends 10 minutes the patient spends 3 weeks trying to coax the surgery to heal up. Then when you go back to dr, if there's any problem, they blame it on you not carrying out their precious instructions.

I was so thankful to be able to use the DM method of packing the nail with cotton. He said twirl a toothpick into a ball of cotton and when you get a sizeable piece, push it up under the nail and keep doing it till there's no more room to fit any more. That keeps the nail out of the flesh and i think the flesh sort of grew into it but i don't know, the flesh seems normal. I just hope some other people are able to cure their toe that way. I hope to tell others about it, but so far i haven't met any fellow toe sufferers, but if i do, i look forward to passing on the information.

Penny

[nancy1340]

Don't get me wrong, I LOVE boiled salted soybeans. It's just that there is a lot of info, both pro and con, about them you need to be aware of.

Remember that at one time more Doctors smoked Lucky Strike than any other cigarettes ::) and gave out prescriptions for cocaine pretty freely.