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Raw Paleo Diet Forums => Info / News Items / Announcements => Topic started by: pioneer on May 15, 2010, 10:30:02 am
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Has anyone ever come across this. Dr. William Wong talked about this on oneradio. All the more reasons humans were not meant to eat grains and legumes. Im starting to second think nuts/seeds as well.
Phytoestrogen food sources
Phytoestrogen content (mcg/100g aprox. 4 ounces)
Flax seed 379,380
Soy beans 103,920
Tofu 27,150.1
Soy yogurt 10,275
Sesame seed 8008.1
Flax bread 7540
Multigrain bread 4798.7
Soy milk 2957.2
Hummus 993
Garlic 603.6
Mung bean sprouts 495.1
Dried apricots 444.5
Alfalfa sprouts 441.4
Dried dates 329.5
Sunflower seed 216
Chestnuts 210.2
Olive Oil 180.7
Almonds 131.1
Green bean 105.8
Peanuts 34.5
Onion 32
Blueberry 17.5
Corn 9
Coffee, regular 6.3
Watermelon 2.9
Milk, cow 1.2
Food Items
Lignan content (mcg/100g)
Total phytoestrogen (mcg/100g)
Vegtables Lignans Estrogen
Soy Bean Sprouts 2.0 789.6
Garlic 583.2 603.6
Winter Squash 113.3 113.7
Green Beans 66.8 105.8
Collards 97.8 101.3
Broccoli 93.9 94.1
Cabbage 79.1 80
Fruits
Dried prunes 177.5 183.5
Peaches 61.8 64.5
Strawberry 48.9 51.6
Rasberry 37.7 47.6
Watermelon 2.9 2.9
Nuts and other legume seeds
Pistachios 198.9 382.5
Chestnuts 186.6 210.2
Walnuts 85.7 139.5
Cashews 99.4 121.9
Hazel Nuts 77.1 107.5
Lentils 26.6 36.5
Beverages
Wine, red 37.3 53.9
Tea, green 12 13
Wine, white 8 12.7
Tea, black 8.1 8.9
Coffee, decaf 4.8 5.5
Beer 1.1 2.7
Other
Black bean souce 10.5 5330.3
Black licorice 415.1 862.7
Bread, rye 142.9 146.3
Phytoestrogen data source:
Thompson, L. U., Boucher, B. A., Lui, Z., Cotterchio, M., and Kreiger, N. 2006. Phytoestrogen content of foods consumed in Canada, including isoflavones, lignans and coumestan. Nutrition and Cancer, 54(2), 184-201.
Additional references:
Cassidy A. Potential risks and benefits of phytoestrogen-rich diets.Int J Vitam Nutr Res. 2003 Mar;73(2):120-6.
Ganry O. Phytoestrogens and prostate cancer risk. Prev Med. 2005 Jul;41(1):1
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Also, once you stop eating the estrogen foods you actually have lower oestrogens naturally, so it's not good for women or those that want to be more feminine either..
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It is always good to lower estrogen to a normalized level. Not a low level, a normal level. Excess estrogen is bad for both men and women. Estrogen breeds inflammation, fibrosis, infertility, cancer, low testosterone, depression, and an early death. These food sources are all non paleo anyway, so we would never have had them. I dont consider all of them really estrogen foods, mainly beans, legumes, nuts and seeds. Those foods are actually little uterisses, think about it. Everyone is eating these yin type foods in large quantities without any yang foods like pine/ bee pollen, or maca root to balance it out. People are starting to see the adverse health effects of excess estrogen from plastics, pesticides, and these foods listed. In Japan, people have over 100,000 in vitro fertilizations a year now because of all the soy they eat. Hispanics are always eating black beans every day and they age very fast and are estrogen dominant. When hispanics are seen outside their normal environment, away from legumes, they are testosterone dominant. European people seem to age slower than most of the world because they eat the least amount of legumes.
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I was reading around on the wai diet page's forum that any milk, even raw cow's milk, has extremely large amounts of natural estrogens.
According to this list the phytoestrogen count of milk is pretty low compared to the other foods, but what about the naturally occurring estrogens from the cows being bred to milk constantly?
Does anyone have any info on this, and whether it poses the same danger as phytoestrogens?