Rachael's Quotes

The industry urges women to eat soy to reduce menopausal symptoms and to prevent osteoporosis. The evidence that soy could do either is inconsistent and contradictory, yet sales of soy foods and soy isoflavone supplements are booming because of the desire for a "safe and natural" alternative to HRT (hormone replacement therapy).

Second generation soy foods are manufactured using high heat and pressure, chemical solvents, acids and alkalis, extruders and other harsh tools that are very likely to contain or produce toxic or carcinogenic residues.

Even if our society begins to provide the kind of food we have adapted to, it will take many generations before we can regain the earlier health  which our genes have programmed us to have, provided we had given them the right tools to work with.

Research in animals and people has shown that, on a uniformly poor diet, the offspring of each generation deteriorates more and more, and in rats this continues up to eight generations. We do not know what the final stage will be in human deterioration.

Most of the added ingredients in today's food are unnecessary for human nourishment. In some cases, they may even be harmful. These additives exist for three reasons.

Artificial food additives reduce cost by replacing real ingredients with fake ones. Generally speaking, the fewer the additives and preservatives a food contains, the more real it is.

"I have followed for many years the sickening effect of soy. Cows that formerly could easily reach the age of 15 years and have 12 calves have on average now less then three calves and reach hardly the age of 6. One main reason is the percentage of soy in the rations.  - PPNF Health Journal"

"Myth: Saturated fat clogs arteries.

Truth: The fatty acids found in artery clogs are mostly unsaturated (74%) of which 41% are poly-unsaturated. (Lancet 1994 344:1195)"

"At the same time, in discussing and comparing ancient or traditional customs and out own, we must not fall into the trap of thinking that modern western culture has it all wrong, and traditional people had it all right. It's easy to idolize life in the village - to see in it a kind of Garden of Eden where no one is sick, depressed, or troubled, except due to outside influences."

"Cooking is not seen as a universal skill of self-sufficiency and adulthood, like driving a car. We are surprised when someone doesn't know how to drive a car, but we are not at all surprised when someone doesn't know how to cook. Large corporations are more then happy to keep us in this state of helplessness. It creates a huge market for factory-processed products and fast food."