Yea finally I got to eat chocolate cake with fudge and waffle biscuit in between. I managed to get it yesterday with emi*how sweet* after I told him I’m dying for chocolate cake.

Talking about food, my mum sends me this email on soya. Never did I expect excessive of soya can cause thyroid. It contains high quantities of various toxic chemicals, which cannot be fully destroyed even by the long cooking process. These are: phytates, which block the body's uptake of minerals; enzyme inhibitors, which hinder protein digestion; and haemaggluttin, which causes red blood cells to clump together and inhibits oxygen take-up and growth. Most controversially of all, soya contains high levels of the phytoestrogens (also known as isoflavones) genistein and daidzein, which mimic and sometimes block the hormone oestrogen. It's been known for years that phytoestrogens in soya depress thyroid function.

A new study of babies born to vegetarian mothers showed that baby boys had a five-fold risk of hypospadias, a birth defect of the penis. The researchers suggest this was due to greater exposure to phytoestrogen rich-foods, especially soya. Inappropriate hormone levels such as that caused by a high intake of soya during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy can also cause damage to the foetus's developing brain. A soya-fed baby receives the equivalent of five birth control pills' worth of oestrogen every day. These babies' isoflavone levels were found to be from 13,000 to 22,000 times higher than in non-soya fed infants.

Fermented soya products, such as soy sauce, tempeh and miso can be taken excessively.*tempeh....very the jawa!!!* The long fermentation process counteracts the effects of natural toxins in soya. You can stop eating the obvious candidates such as soya milk and tofu, but soya is also to be found in breakfast cereals, ice cream, convenience food such as hamburgers, fish fingers and lasagne, and all manner of baked goods from cakes and biscuits to tortillas and bread. If that's your mission in life, read labels carefully, and eat organic processed foods wherever possible.