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Environment & Energy

Jim Lane

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5. Is the part about flax, for example, "hogwash"?

Reply to VanillaRhapsody (Reply #1)

Sun Apr 13, 2014, 04:47 PM

Apr 2014

The linked article gives specific information (included in the OP's excerpt) about the extraordinarily high estrogen content of flax. Is there any reason to doubt the accuracy of the measurement?

It certainly seems plausible that someone who made it a point to eat a lot of flax (which, as the article notes, has been touted as a healthful food) could thereby be taking on quite a load of estrogen, and that this, combined with the other factors mentioned in the article (estrogen and/or its precursors in many of the products we use) could create a problem.

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4 otherwise healthy foods crammed with estrogen [View all] unhappycamper Apr 2014 OP

this is hogwash... VanillaRhapsody Apr 2014 #1

Yes, another rubbishy article from Junk Science, Inc. Warpy Apr 2014 #3

Is the part about flax, for example, "hogwash"? Jim Lane Apr 2014 #5

and that's bullshit too... VanillaRhapsody Apr 2014 #6

Soy is also a heavy GMO crop, turns out. dixiegrrrrl Apr 2014 #2

Organic tofu is not GM. roody Apr 2014 #4