Hmm. A quick search through PubMed found
no articles suggesting that a diet containing tofu or other soy products was harmful in any way. I did find a study which found that in postmenopausal women who drank soy milk, the rate of bone turnover was lower than in women who drank cow's milk.
But, the study found no evidence that women who drank soy milk had bones that were any less dense or any more brittle. (This would mean that the bones of postmenopausal women who avoid dairy products for soy products
might heal from breaks more slowly than the bones of postmenopausal women who consume lots of dairy products.)
Other studies found that soy products were perfectly healthy, and one even recommended soy products as a good way to help maintain blood glucose levels in diabetics.
I certainly wouldn't worry about soy causing any adverse health effects.
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Originally Posted by fragment
No expert here, but I am deeply suspicious of claims made about the benefits or drawbacks of any particular foodstuffs. Many media stories are based on single studies, and it's really easy to cherry-pick results to support a pre-chosen preferred position. Often there's some industry or other with a strong interest in protecting and expanding its market involved.
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I can't emphasize this strongly enough. The media are simply terrible,
terrible,
terrible at accurately reporting scientific research. We can speculate on the reasons for this, but if the newspapers were to report tomorrow that "New Scientific Studies Conclude that Water is Wet," I wouldn't believe it until I'd seen it in more trustworthy sources.
We all remember how, a few years ago, some scientists reported that "We've found some evidence from a meteorite which suggests the
remote possibility that
maybe,
possibly there
might have been some sort of
simple life forms (like bacteria) on Mars
at one time (like about 3 billion years ago).
Perhaps."
Was that the way it was reported in the media? Hardly! You'd think the Martian War Machines were practically landing in New Jersey from the way it was reported.
In my experience, very little of the science reporting in the newspapers or on television news can be considered reliable or accurate.
Cheers,
Michael