There’s never an excuse soy milk
Some lactose-intolerant folks drink it because they want a milk substitute. Some health-conscious people drink it because they think it is the “heart-healthy low fat option.” And some vegans drink it because they don’t want to drink cow milk.
But no matter what reason you have for drinking soy milk, it is not a valid excuse. Soy milk is not a food and has no place in anyone’s diet.
Soymilk Ingredients
Ironically, almost every ingredient in soymilk is cause for serious concern. Here are the ingredients in Silk Soymilk:
Soymilk (Filtered Water, Whole Soybeans), Cane Sugar, Sea Salt, Carrageenan, Natural Flavor, Calcium Carbonate, Vitamin A Palmitate, Vitamin D2, Riboflavin (B2), Vitamin B12.
If someone has chosen to drink soy milk because it is not an animal product, they may still be inadvertently consuming by-products of animals. I never purchase a product that has “natural flavors” on the ingredient list, and I recommend that you don’t, either.
10. It’s simply not Real Food!
Healthy eating can be simplified into four words: just eat real food. But this is easier said than done when we are surrounded by slippery marketing claims about “all natural” health foods.
Here are five questions that I suggest you ask yourself to determine if an item is real food:
- Is it a product or is it a food?
- Is it made with ingredients that humans have used for thousands of years?
- Is this something that your great-grandmother would recognize as food?
- Can you make it in your kitchen with grocery store ingredients?
- Is it advertised on TV?
When we ask these questions about commercial soymilk, the answers are:
- Soymilk is a product, not a food.
- Synthetic vitamins and unfermented soy beans were never used by traditional cultures thousands of years ago.
- Nope! Great grandma would been utterly repulsed by the idea of drinking soybean juice emulsified with seaweed.
- Nuh-uh. Where can you get your hands on “natural flavors” and synthetic vitamins?
- Yes! Soymilk is heavily advertised.
The only conclusion to make about soymilk is that it is
not a real food.
What are healthy alternatives?
Try real milk! While I don’t recommend the highly processed milk from massive farming operations, unprocessed milk is a time-honored food rich in vitamins, protein and healthy fats. Try to source milk from grass-grazing cows, which is vastly higher in nutrients (and it’s
beneficial for the planetwhen cows graze in pasture).
The best option is non-homogenized and non-pasteurized milk, which is highly digestible and rich in enzymes. Read about the
safety of raw milk in my article here.
If you prefer a non-dairy option for milk, making your own nut and seed milks is easy and affordable. Homemade coconut milk –
recipe here – is the best option due to the healthful fats and lack of phytic acid in coconut.
If you wish to use other nuts or seeds, I recommend a specific soaking process to help reduce the naturally-occuring phytic acid and enzyme inhibitors. Try this recipe from Wellness Mama for
soaked almond milk.
source:
http://empoweredsustenance.com/avoid-soy-milk/
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