Soy Health Risks

With all the new research suggests that soy has health risks associated with it:

http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/index.html
http://www.healingdaily.com/detoxification-diet/soy.htm

I'm curious to know why I have not heard anything bad other vegetables.

Most soy we eat (especially in America) is highly processed. It is easy to process soybeans into products that do not even resemble vegetables. Companies to isolate chemicals from soybeans and the use of chemicals, and not whole foods.

It is much harder to make a veggie burger that looks like meat, say, broccoli. I think the reason why we have not seen the reports on the health risks of other vegetables, because for the most part, we use other vegetables in a sensible manner.

I think most of the risks associated with the following soybean weird how we use this legume otherwise healthy.

There is indeed no proven health risks associated with soy.

Any sites that you link to a reliable source of information; Weston A Price for example, is a huge force's anti-vegan, largely funded by the meat industry. There is no source palnt other foods that are a threat to the meat industry such as soybeans.

The other site looks like any other health information half-baked "site that does not know the meaning of the word" study ".

A study was just that - a study. This is not proof, nor those carrying out studies on the claim as evidence, they suggest possibilities for future research. Usinf studies to back up your argument is even more questionable when you just say "studues show" or "studies suggest no link or even name these studies.

Of anti-soy in general, that they have mentioned the risk of cancer - particularly breast cancer risk.

The facts as known are:

Soy protein contains isoflavones that can mimic estrogen low. This is not the same as the estrogen your body makes it well - it is 1,000 times weaker than the estrogen your own body, but that is what has led to concerns (and rumors) about estrogen cancer and negative effects on men.

There is no real scientific evidence that soya causes, prevents, contributes to or affects the progress of any cancer, including breast cancer estrogen positive, which is most often cited. There are those in the field who argue that isoflavones may be useful in preventing breast cancer or be beneficial for women with breast cancer.

There is ongoing research to determine whether increasing phyto oestrogens in the diet helps prevent breast or prostate cancer, and a study in 2002 found that women with higher levels of soy products in their diet had the lowest breast density - the higher breast density is associated with increased risk of breast cancer.

Women with the highest levels of isoflavones in their diet would reduce the significant risk for cancer of the uterus.

It is worth remembering that no one knows what causes cancer and there are no foods proven to cause it.

There are concerns about soy and certain pre-existing conditions of the thyroid, but I do not have sufficient knowledge to answer that.

There are other plants, including food, which contain estrogen, but none has the threat as a meat substitute that soy does.

Soy in moderation is fine.

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@ Greyhounds - did I mention beef at all companies?

On his own website WAPF:''The main sources of support to the Foundation Weston A. Price are the dues and contributions of its members ... many of our members are farmers ...''

'Nuff said.