Soy Good and Bad, How about too early to tell.

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The good side has been left out. This writer is satisfied that for now and

until more tests are completed Soy is not necessary in a healthy diet. We

can wait.

 

Excerpts:

 

WASHINGTON -- Get ready for a rush of good news from the soybean industry --

and read it carefully.

 

Soy Foods Are Coming -- With Praise And Warnings ............

 

 

The industry is gearing up for new sales, buoyed by favorable regulatory

decisions and preliminary scientific suggestions that soy and its

ingredients may avert or mitigate some of America's most dreaded

diseases............

 

But FOUR HUNDRED researchers attending an international symposium on the

role of soy in the prevention and treatment of chronic diseases last week

warned repeatedly that their findings are preliminary................

 

And some went even further: their preliminary findings suggest that normal

soy diets can even be harmful.......

 

A Hawaii study, for example, turned up a statistically significant

relationship between three servings of tofu a week to ``accelerated brain

aging'' and even an association with Alzheimer's disease. ..................

 

 

Best Regards, Lorenzo