How should people interpret the conflicting information on studies about soy and cancer?
The soy industry has really been running with the recent study where they asked people what they’d been eating during childhood and teenage years; women with the highest soy intake were the ones with the lowest rates of breast cancer. There are a lot of problems with that kind of study. First, if I started to interview you right about what you ate last Tuesday, could you tell me and tell me how much? When people are talking to an interviewer, they like to say what the interviewer wants to hear; there’s a potential for bias. In the latest study, it was only like two servings per week and in all probability it was not things like soy energy bars or shake powders. It was miso soup or tofu. Maybe they were a traditional family eating a lot of foods from scratch. There are other foods and other factors you could get these benefits from. Is increased soy consumption a reason that girls are hitting puberty as early as eight or nine? There’s a good reason to think that soy formula is part of t
