Re: Soy Intake May Modify Risk of Breast Cancer

 Can you elaborate between types of soy consumption? There's a huge difference between the traditional asian use of soy(mostly fermented, and not a huge part of the diet), and the way westerners are consuming it now(soy milk, soy burgers, soy protein isolate, soy energy bars, soylent green, etc).

Soylent green? That is people. You may not be old enough to remember that movie.

As long as the soy is cooked or fermented then the goitergenic activity is inactivated. I don't know of any commercial soy product that is not fermented  or subjected to sufficient heat to inactivate the goitergens.

As for the cancer claims, it does not cause cancer just like all the many other phytoestrogen containing plants we ingest every day do not cause cancer. The phytoestrogens are estrogen antagonists, and thus protect us from cancer. I covered all of this is my previous post.

It is easy to manipualte studies though to make something appear dangerous. There was a study that claimed that chromium picolinate caused cancer. When you looked at the actual study what they had done was gave they gave the mice 6,000 times the equivalent dose that would be given to a human. Using that protocol we could prove that every single pharmaceutical drug and even water is 100% fatal!!! Again, this is why I tell people to not get their information from propaganda sites, but to actually look at the studies done to see how they were performed and interpreted.

And all those that are anti-soy from reading these propaganda sites should ask themselves this simple question. Since at least one of the "bad" things in soy such as phytoestrogens and goitergens are found in EVERY single plant we eat for food why is soy being singled out? This should show people right there that the anti-soy propaganda sites have a strong enough agenda to prove soy is dangerous that they will use any false claim or manipulated study they can find to try and prove soy is dangerous.