BIRTH CONTROL PILLS FOR BABIES?
Environmental toxicologist Mike Fitzpatrick, PhD says he doesn’t have it out for soy. His original concern was for babies: “They were getting more soy isoflavones, at least on a bodyweight basis, than anybody else,” he notes. “It wasn’t so much that I knew what that would do, but that I didn’t know what that would do.” Fitzpatrick, who is also webmaster of … Soy Online Services (www.soyonline-service.co.nz), a website devoted to informing people about the potential problems with soy, stresses the potential dangers for the developing human body: “Any person with any kind of understanding of environmental endocrine disruptors, compounds [like isoflavones] that are not in the body normally and can modify hormones and the way they work in the body, any expert will say that infants need to avoid these things like the plague.” Fitzpatrick was quoted – and misquoted – worldwide a few years ago when he suggested that the isoflavones in soy formula were the equivalent of birth control pills:
