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 that problem, but we also have environmental estrogens and pesticides and plastics and supermarket meats, xenoestrogens. Soy may be the one thing we can completely avoid. What provoked the Israeli Health Ministry warning on soy foods? The Israeli Health Ministry issued an advisory that babies should not get soy formula, and that children to age 18 should eat soy no more than once per day, three times per week maximum. Adults should exercise caution due to the adverse effects on fertility and increased breast cancer risk. It’s a pretty strong statement and a good start. Were they seeing problems or was it a precautionary measure? Both. It started a few years ago when several babies were hospitalized with severe beriberi and brain damage because of a soy infant formula that was deficient in vitamin B1. The manufacturer had gotten the idea that why should they add extra B vitamins if soy is such a perfect food, already high in B v
