[Mase]

Not following your logic here. If phytoestrogens are bad for you in soy then they have to also be bad for you in a diet high in vegetables, tubers, fruits and cereals. That defies everything we know about human nutrition. This also doesn't explain why the people that consume the most soy are also the healthiest and longest living on the planet (Okinawans). They also have no issues with their males becoming feminized. As is so common with issues of nutrition, people like to blame something other than the cause for the problems they perceive. The feminization of American boys/men may be caused by a lot of things (the culture, obesity, etc.) but it is not being affected by the consumption of soy.

[Irish Queen]

Here is my brief reply: Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing. Examples: Salt is a natural ingredient in many foods. But it is easy with our modern diets to overdose on salt.
If a diet filled with soy products helps you to feel healthy go for it. No food is a miracle food. Soy is not a cure all for illness or aging. And neither is soy a poison except for the rare few of us who have severe allergic reactions.
Have a good evening. It’s time for “Dancing With the Stars”.

[BellStar]

Yes it is. It is for a fact.

[Flying Circus]

One difference in the effect of soy on Americans and Okinawans is the manner the soy is prepared. An article I read some time ago detailed the differences in how our industrial food producers process soy protein for edibility versus how traditional Asian cultures prepare soy. Soy in it’s raw form is not digestible by humans.

Needless to say our methods take short cuts. Those short cuts result in product that is less healthy than traditionally produced soy. Even traditionally produced soy has been identified as potentially stunting growth and its effects evidenced by the dramatic differences in height between Asian born and raised parents and their American born children raised on a low soy, western style diet.