Changing Habits

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In this day and age it’s easy to become a vegetarian; people are more knowledgeable and the soy industry has created numerous products to enable vegetarians to obtain their daily protein. From the humble soy bean we have soy flour, tempeh, tofu, soy milk, soy sauce, miso, soy cheese, soy burgers, soy mayonnaise, and even soy ice-cream. Now at first this seems like a good thing but for the last 11 years there has been a ground swell of negative publicity on soy and a proliferation of research and new discoveries, so it is worth looking at. I must express here that it seems soy, like many other foods I talk about, has become a victim of when science and technology tries to “improve the food” to get the most out of it financially, we seem to have problems. While I believe soy inherently is a good food when cooked correctly and eaten in moderation, (of course I’m not talking about soy that has been genetically modified), it is what we have done to the humble soy bean that has created the problems we are now seeing. Read More

Follow the link below  to a BBC Horizon documentary Ghost in Your Genes. Read More

I was updating my talk recently and decided as part of my talk that I would discuss this issue of genetics vs environment with the gene for breast cancer.  So I was researching and found quite a few articles on young women removing their breasts because they had been told that they had the gene for breast cancer. Read More

It has been an interesting 10 days on “changing habits” facebook.  I’ve posed questions about certain pictures I posted.  The questions were about whether the cause of death or deformity in animals and humans was genetic or environment. Read More