False health alarms change you?

[OakLeaf]

If your mammogram was false and your doctor didn't ask you to be screened next year...then you won't be.

That's one of the ways your health care system differs from ours Mammography is very, very heavily profit-driven in the USA. Every woman is supposed to have one annually beginning at age 40, so whenever I see my doctor, she will ask me to be re-screened. I think the powers that be finally decided that we can stop getting mammos at age 80, but there's not complete agreement on that. Imaging companies have gotten laws enacted requiring that insurance companies and Medicare reimburse for mammography even when they don't cover most other screening, or any preventive health care. Imaging companies sponsor several charities that encourage women to get mammograms, and collect money (which winds up back in the imaging companies' hands) to provide mammos to uninsured women. Once we've had a false positive, we're supposed to have a re-screen every six months. Considering that statistically every woman who has regular mammos will have a false positive at least once in her life, that's a lot of mammos, a lot of expensive machines and a lot of radiation to vulnerable tissues.

I don't get the connection of eating too much soy and what it does.

Every woman's hormone balance is a little different, and as far as medical research goes, it goes both ways, but the better designed studies have come down in favor of unprocessed soy as a breast cancer preventive. In my body though, estrogen already tends to be out of balance with progesterone, and if I eat too much soy, that gets really exaggerated. Hugely swollen and painful breasts at ovulation, etc. Other women I know get muscle weakness from too much soy. In general, the more processed the product, the worse it is for me (protein powder>tofu or soymilk>edamame or dried soybeans). I don't mean I don't eat soy, I do. I wish I could get some yuba from your store because I can't get it here. I just don't buy soy protein powder and I don't eat soy every single day (which is actually a good rule for anyone for any food).