Soy...Its Actually GOOD for US!!

It's important to note that the soy that's "good for us" is dietary soy products.

When you go into so-called health food stores and start looking at concentrated soy extracts, this is quite a different beast. These concentrated products are often hundreds of times the concentration of compounds found in dietary products like tempeh, edamame, soy nuts, etc. It is NOT logical that if a little of something is good, a hundred times as much as 100 times better. That's not the case.

Just another reason why I have stopped concerning myself with every little thing that I can or can not eat. It changes everyday it seems like. Until someone definatively tells me this caused your cancer I will go crazy trying to figure it out. So I just eat what I want in moderation of course and incorporate more fruits and veggies.

Once upon a looong time ago,  when  I was in 3rd grade, we were being taught about the wonders of modern agricultural science..

We were also being taught about the alarming increase of the population of the planet. 

 I remember my teacher saying, "we know that soy beans could solve the problem of starvation, the problem is, can we convince people to actually EAT them??? "

 That was years before soy started showing up as a "health food".  But when it did, I was quick to realize this was they way they had figured out to  sell their soy.... 

but I digress.

If you must eat soy, please make sure it's organic. Most soy in the US is GMO. 

..LJ do you mean like the yew plant and how that gets concentrated and synthesized? 

http://www.yewconservation.org/YewCon/Downloads/YewConBrochure.pdf

http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/173346.php

Another article

No.  No.  NO!!!

As Timothy rightly points out, previous studies have shown that there appears to be a difference in how soy affects people who have eaten large quantities of soy all their lives versus people who only started to consume soy as adults.  So the fact that Chinese women who've had breast cancer react positively to soy is not surprising; this finding is in fact fully consistent with previous studies. But other studies have also shown that women raised on a western diet (i.e. little to no soy) have not had the same positive results and in fact, for these women, soy may be harmful.  So from my standpoint, this study is meaningless to those who of us who were not raised on a diet heavy on soy.  And it is irresponsible of those reporting on the study (including the authors of the study) to not point this out.

By the way, this is not to say that soy is not good for North American women.  The problem is that we just don't know enough.  Some small studies have shown negative results but there hasn't been a definitive long-term study.  One study that was interesting, however, showed that if girls start to consume soy when they are young - in their pre-teen and teen years - this reduces the risk of breast cancer later on.  So while it's not known if soy is good for those of us raised on western diets who've had ER+ breast cancer, it may be that soy is exactly the right thing for our daughters to be consuming.

Makes sense, Beesie.....My daughter was put on soy based formula when I could not breat feed......Her drink preference is soy milk...I made her stop drinking it after my bc diagnosis.....I wonder if I should continue to let her drink it?......She is 18 now........She drank a lot of soy milk and ate lots of tofu in her pre and late teens........She was vegan and vegetarian off and on for about 6 years.........

Im still avoiding soy when possible- the review I read also mentioned that it is possible the "good" effect from the soy was because it replaced another "worse" food - like excessive red meat in the diet- so I wasnt convinced to eas off my limitation of soy.

Kristy