Fwd: [thechat] Silk?

[Madhu Menon]

At 03:04 AM 1/11/2002, deke hammered out these words:

>Concern has arisen over a possible detrimental effect of soy in breast
>cancer patients because of the estrogen-like effects of isoflavones.
>Genistein exhibits a biphasic effect on the growth of MCF-7 cells in
>vitro, stimulating proliferation at low concentrations but inhibiting it at
>high concentrations. In ovariectomized athymic mice implanted with MCF-7
>cells, both genistein and soy protein stimulate tumor growth in a
>dose-dependent manner. In contrast, in intact mice fed estrogen,
>genistein inhibits tumor growth
>                 -  J Nutr 2001 Nov;131(11 Suppl):3095S-108S


Holy crap! My English is clearly not as good as I thought it was. I don't 
understand any of that :)


>There are a *lot* of pesticides used in raising soy: acifluorfen,
>bentazon, chlorimuron, dimethenamid, fenoxaprop, fluazifop, flufenacet,
>flumetsulam, flumiclorac, imazaquin, imazethapyr, lactofen,
>metolachlor, metribuzin, pendimethalin, sethoxydim, sulfentrazone,
>thifensulfuron, trifluralin

You forgot the dilithium matrix, the warp core plasma relays, and the 
tritanium bulkheads, not to mention temporal phase variances.

Oh wait, that's Star Trek lingo. Equally cryptic, however.  :P


>Rapeseed is the seed of the rape plant.You crush oilseeds in order to
>get meal and oil. Canola is low-erucic acid rape.

The "rape plant"? Obviously not named in our politically correct times.


>I will go along with those who argue that monosaturated oils are
>probably the best for you, but sheesh, olive oil *smells*. Yuck!

I use peanut oil all the time, since I make mostly oriental food. It's 
light, can be heated to a high temperature without burning, and is healthy.

Madhu
(feeling silly)