Why Soy Is NOT a Health Food www.mercola.com
March 18th, 2009 | by health |mercola asked:
Review of the health problems with soy and why it is not the health food you were led to believe it is.
DORIAN
24 Responses to “Why Soy Is NOT a Health Food www.mercola.com”
By suddenrush576 on Mar 20, 2009 | Reply
DEL
The world needs more truth heroes like this guy, I salute U sir
By raileurope on Mar 22, 2009 | Reply
BURTON
SOY lent Green is people
By igimaru on Mar 24, 2009 | Reply
CYRIL
we eat tempe not the soy that u eat
By guardrailgirl on Mar 25, 2009 | Reply
DEREK
I’m a vegetarian and use a ton of morningstar meat replacement products. Are these GMO foods? What else can I eat? I eat regular tofu. But, I am not the greatest cook either. What do you drink instead of Cows milk? rice milk?
By dakotateresa on Mar 27, 2009 | Reply
BOB
Asian have been eating primarilly FERMENTED soy… They don’t eat soy beans or unfermented soy like we do. They use unfermented soy as a condiment for the most part and not as a major staple of their diet.
By leia176o on Mar 28, 2009 | Reply
ASHLEY
It’s nto nonsense. Farm factory meat islinked to cancer, not wild lean meat. Check out teh paleo diet or caveman diet. It’s what we evolved on for millions of years.
By Adrenalyn on Mar 30, 2009 | Reply
FAUSTO
I’m a Vegan and I eat soy everything and ToFu all the time… I’ve recently been diagnosed with cervical cancer and now all I eat is sweet potatoes brown Rice and fresh organnic veggies. I **** it. I miss Soy, but it is bad for you.
By gammaray0wn on Apr 1, 2009 | Reply
GREGG
Soy is slowly becoming one of the most common food allergies. Which is very bad because almost everything contains soy or soy derivatives.
By pewterfig on Apr 2, 2009 | Reply
CAROL
we are eating fermented soy, not the soy that you eat.
By mrtanooki on Apr 4, 2009 | Reply
CHONG
@hydarnes
sounds to me like you havent done much research.
i have drank soy milk for a long enough time to be able to say that it is indeed unhealthy for you. i stopped when it started making me constipated
By hydarnes on Apr 7, 2009 | Reply
GERALD
I can’t believe people will even be falling for this pseudo-science NONSENSE. Any evidence linking soy with anything potentially negative can’t even compare with the volumes of scientific proof associating flesh meat with cancer and heart disease.
Asians have been eating soy without any of the problems that we as Americans have been facing NOT eating soy.
This is just downright sad.
By seh97001 on Apr 8, 2009 | Reply
BUCK
I agree that soy is bad. I have been a veggie for a long time, and I was misinformed. It’s a good thing that I found out about it before my children started eating it.
By bassisboss on Apr 9, 2009 | Reply
CODY
I believe that many folks like to think that soy can be eaten as an acceptable alternative to animal products. Regardless of your religion (or anti-cruelty to animal beliefs), I don’t think that we can get away from the fact that our main protein source MUST come from animals (hopefully hormone free and raised the way nature intended). My particular rule of thumb is that if a food can (historically) be eaten and digested raw (botulism notwithstanding) it’s probably meant for humans.
By plastastic on Apr 10, 2009 | Reply
CALVIN
Almond milk, oat milk, rice milk, among others.
By ladyjane61 on Apr 12, 2009 | Reply
ASHLEY
I **** to hear this about the soy. I use soy milk every moring. Cow’s milk hurts my stomach among other things. What do you suggest if you want milk and cannot drink cow’s milk?
By WhyIWearTheVeil on Apr 13, 2009 | Reply
BOYCE
Yeah, it is that bad. It’s why asians are short.
By djtwistter on Apr 15, 2009 | Reply
ERICK
this is realy intersting can u make on on roids plz thaks
By PandoraSpox on Apr 16, 2009 | Reply
FLOYD
My mom had thyroid cancer, she’s all better now after surgery, — but do you think that soy could have had anything to do with it?
By waltzj on Apr 16, 2009 | Reply
GARRETT
Much of the information regarding the dangers of soy to children focuses on infants. However, my son was breastfed until 14 months and has since been given soymilk (due to dairy allergies). Is he in danger of the developmental side affects widely thought to be related to soy? Is there a “good” type of soymilk?
By trickster98444 on Apr 18, 2009 | Reply
CODY
Soy is really that bad, or worse than he made it sound. It’s a horrible food that cannot be healthfully eaten. Asians have been eating fermented soy products, and not for thousands of years. Only one or two thousand years. Plus they have only eaten soy in small amounts as condiments. The average Japanese gets a couple teaspoons of soy a day. It’s still not good for you but fermenting it neutralizes some of the bad stuff.
By spinedoc18 on Apr 20, 2009 | Reply
BORIS
Can soy, eaten in moderation, really be that bad? Millions of Asians have eaten tofu for thousands of years!
By tpribors on Apr 23, 2009 | Reply
EARLE
Are you going to do one on raw milk?
By mercola on Apr 25, 2009 | Reply
COLIN
No. Organic soy milk still has all the negative side effects that I mentioned in the video.
By ooohal9000 on Apr 27, 2009 | Reply
ARCHIE
Hi doctor, I enjoy your videos! Question: is organic soy milk (not the kind used for infants) safe and beneficial?