Soy is Not healthy

You should always remember that everything has two sides, even foods. They can be beneficial but they can cause negative effects to our bodies. But this comes from not properly cooking our food and eating too much. You should also remember that everything in excess is bad for our health. Soy is a good source of protein, and eating the right amount would not do a damage to your digestive system, and eating a lot of it would definitely have a bad effect on your body.

Hold everything. Stop press!!! What makes soy healthy or not healthy is HOW the end product is prepared. As with most beans & grains, they contain phytic acid & enzyme inhibitors. These can be transformed into other beneficial substances completely with just seven hours of soaking plus normal cooking. This has the effect of not just removing these undesirable substances which stop protein from being absorbed correctly as well as remove valuable calcium, magnesium, etc from the body. It's a little more complex than that, but it just goes to show that homemade is best & mass-produced quick profits, cutting corners & cheating our bodies is "out", no matter what food is used. If soy were properly grown, organically & prepared correctly, it would provide our bodies with an additional 1000% protein boost plus 300% more vitamins & minerals. I've been vegan since December 2000 & do not consume any soy products. We're better off without them, really. Their main reason for commercial growing is for feeding animals like cows & sheep who are later murdered for their flesh for our consumption. It is used so widely because it's very, very cheap.

WHAT?! I have taken a food nutrition class, and I, too, grew up thinking that soy was healthy. I have never had any reason to believe that soy wasn't healthy.

There has been many issues surrounding soy and soya products which prevented me from patronizing them. Well whether it is not really healthy or not, I would rather stay on the safe side. Anyway, I can always have better alternatives. I will not die if I don't eat soy and its products anyway.

I say that if you only ate soy then it would be unhealthy, i had a friend that ate only soy sauce and rice for lunch, nothing else! I think that would taste kind of funny. Eating soy is healthy, but if you eat it a lot then it probably is bad, all foods are bad if consumed a certain amount, that's why you need a balanced diet. I eat Tofu all the time and i enjoy it but not only that i eat chicken, and veggies, so yes. You can still eat tofu but don't eat too much soy sauce.

Isn't life full of ironies? Just when one report says that something is good for health, another report comes up shortly contradicting it. So who are we to believe in? I would think we just eat whatever we want to eat, but in moderation - the keyword here is moderation. So, continue eating your favorite tofu.

ah, the fancy battle of research and science, years later they see it is the best and so on, and then later a new study will refute the latter and so on, my advice is to eat in variety and in moderation to balance diet, everything should be balance, that's the way of nature, the way of life.

Whether it's healthy or not, I'm still going to eat it but, of course, with moderation.

Hmm maybe this things happen for the fact that all things can never have to much good in it. Hehehe To balance it like nature balance out after all.

Hi ddaguno, i am so confused with the information about each product as you said that soy is not good for health.. but i heard it is so good for women. They keep on changing their minds which will give more confusion to everyone so i don't believe in all these since our people are using this since many years and they are fine, so we have to take that into consideration.

I think that all foods have their good and bad consequences, according to the lifestyle of each, these consequences can manifest in the body. The most natural would be to have our own fifth and harvest our food, healthier than that, but who can do it. Each physician, politician, a scientist with his book according to the pressures, interests and businesses that are behind them.

Everything eaten in excess is bad. All food eaten has all its good and bad side effects. Coffee for instance when taken in excess might cause hypertension and inability to get sleep. Soy when taken in excess also has its downsides. So the best solution is to have a balance diet.

THere is not one food that isnt harmful in some way. People used to encourage having grilled chicken but now they say its cancer causeing. THere is going to be soem bit of cancer causeing or other down side agent in ANY food. There is no point in changing your diet over this. And also tofu is sure a whole lot better for you than other things. also soy for baby products and so on is not popular so much for it being healthy as it is that its rare to be alergic to it. for babyies it is a big issue because you dont know what they may be alergic to and a throat can snap shut extreemly fast if they are alergic. So people choose to use soy. Overall any food has up points and down points today its neigh impossiblet o find a food that people dont say is cancer causeing if you folloed all of those statments youd starve.