I dunno... the East Asians are big consumers of soy bean. I’ve never heard that heart-related diseases are big there. Perhaps, unlike what the title suggests, soy bean is fine for heart or may even be good, just not as good as some people have suggested.
You have to consider the whole diet (for instance, a lot of seafood / fish - sources of fish oil and Vitamin D3) and, actually soy (as in tofu, rather than use of soy sauce etc.) is not a large part of Asian diet or cuisine, it’s been popularized and more faddish in the western world when vegetarianism became fashionable.
East Asians do NOT consume large amounts of soy - the Japanese only ever used it in tofu, soy sauce, and as pig feed. American Chinese food uses lots of soy sauce, but real Chinese food doesn’t. Furthermore, Asians never ate processed soybean oil - that’s a 20th century U.S. innovation.
Since soy oil acts as artificial estrogen, some people are claiming that soy is behind the rise of homosexuality in America. I’m allergic to soy, so I never had to worry about its effects on my manliness, but you might want to think about it. Soy is in many more things than people realize, as it can be listed as many other ingredients. ‘MSG’ is soy, and ‘modified food starch’ in American products (Canadians tend to use potato). ‘Vegetable oil’ (in everything) is usually soy, and almost all lecithin (an emulsifier found in candy and most creamy foods) is soy. ‘Vegetable broth’ in tuna cans, soup, and frozen foods is soy. Soy is even injected into Thanksgiving hams and turkeys.
Bottom line: Americans are the world’s biggest consumers of soy, by eating prepackaged foods. We the people are the biggest biological experiment in the history of the world. And we voted for Obama - what does this tell you?
Plus, the soy they consume, is more than likely, fermented.
IMHO, soy is bad stuff for young women who already produce enough of their own estrogen, for children who do not need to advance hormonally any faster, and especially for men, who darn sure do not need any feminization!
Who does that leave? MAYBE, big maybe here, post menopausal women : /
Tatt