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To: Mase
Except for all those Asians who've been consuming it for thousands of years and enjoy some of the highest life expectancies in the world.

Check out that article I linked for comparisons of relative dosage of soy ... Asian consumption rates tends to be far lower. The question is not about all the other good things in soy milk, but the effects of high loadings estrogenic compounds.

76 posted on 12/13/2006 2:09:11 PM PST by Tirian
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To: Tirian
Asian consumption rates tends to be far lower.

With China, and to a lesser extent Japan, you are probably correct. However, you have to look at Asia as a whole. When you do, you'll find that their per capita consumption is much higher. Besides, the Okinawans consume more soy per capita than any other people on earth and they have one of the highest life expectancies on earth. They also have the lowest incidence of hormone dependent cancers on earth. Twelve percent of their total diet is soy based. That's extremely high and they don't experience the other maladies your linked article blames on soy.

Most of what we consume is isolated soy protein. 90% of ISP is protein. What is it about the other 10% that bothers you?

The question is not about all the other good things in soy milk, but the effects of high loadings estrogenic compounds.

See my previous posts on phytoestrogen consumption and health. It is much to do about nothing.

81 posted on 12/13/2006 3:37:30 PM PST by Mase (Save me from the people who would save me from myself!)
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