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[Earlbo]

OT: There seems to be a bit of controversy to the use of soy for food.
This is a a very small exerpt from one of the responses to the article that you cite in the magazine, "Mothering":

"Indeed, the authors of the Okinawa Centenarian Study state that high soy consumption in Okinawa is one of the primary reasons elder Okinawans have 80 percent fewer heart attacks than North Americans do. And because of high soy consumption, if Okinawans do suffer heart attacks, they are more than twice as likely to survive.

These are staggering numbers. The study's authors state that if North Americans lived more like elder Okinawans and ate the amount of soy they do, we "would have to close 80 percent of the coronary care units and one-third of the cancer wards in the US, and a lot of nursing homes would also be out of business. By 1990, Okinawan life expectancy figures had even surpassed the absolute limits of population life expectancy assumed by the Japan Population Research Institute. Limits had to be revised upwards simply to account for the phenomenal longevity of the Okinawans."

It is not an accident that in Okinawa, home to the highest soy consumption in the world, heart disease is minimal; breast cancer is so rare that screening mammography is not needed; and most aging men have never heard of prostate cancer. The three leading killers in the West-coronary heart disease, stroke, and cancer-occur in Okinawans with the lowest frequency in the world.

Elder Okinawans also have much stronger bones than we do and less than half the hip fractures. The authors of the Okinawa Centenarian Study attribute the increased bone strength and health in Okinawa to soy consumption. Many other studies confirm the connection between increased soy consumption"

I don't particularly like soym either and my son has problems with it, but this article and all the responses makes one wonder: What is REALLY going on with SOY used as food or food additives around the world?
Earl

BTW: Hurray for SOY used for JR JUICE.
Go USSE/SSTP