Is Soy Good or Bad for your Health?

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Apparently there is a lot of misinformation out there about soy being bad for your health. I have only vaguely heard about it, but this article linked below mentions some of the myths which were news to me and quite surprising.

I'm not going to say soy is good for you just because I want to believe it is so; I'll leave it to the nutritional expert to do that - see Dr. Wilson's article linked below. Meantime, I will continue to make my soy milk at home and enjoy it everyday in my oatmeal, and eat tofu and tempeh most days in my meals. I offer myself to nutritional science as a test case. Hopefully you'll get to check back with me when I'm 100 like all those soy-eating Okinawan centenarians.

Holly Wilson, M.D.- Soy Myths and Misinformation:
http://freefromharm.org/health-nutrition/vegan-doctor-addresses-soy-myths-and-misinformation

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