Comments on: Scrutinizing Soy http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Thu, 28 Aug 2008 14:31:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Processed Soy and Meat Alternatives http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-34898 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Processed Soy and Meat Alternatives Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:35:47 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-34898 [...] convince you otherwise, we still encourage you to eat food and not food products. As we said in Scrutinizing Soy a while back, edamame, tempeh, traditional miso (in other words, foods closer to the source) are [...] [...] convince you otherwise, we still encourage you to eat food and not food products. As we said in Scrutinizing Soy a while back, edamame, tempeh, traditional miso (in other words, foods closer to the source) are [...]

]]> By: Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Questions About Soy Formula http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-34182 Mark’s Daily Apple » Blog Archive » Questions About Soy Formula Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:11:45 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-34182 [...] weeks ago Mark offered the piece Scrutinizing Soy that mentioned he was unequivocally against soy formula. At the time he suggested the topic was a [...] [...] weeks ago Mark offered the piece Scrutinizing Soy that mentioned he was unequivocally against soy formula. At the time he suggested the topic was a [...]

]]> By: Jack http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-30836 Jack Sun, 24 Feb 2008 06:31:47 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-30836 <strong>Jack...</strong> Here's a very good authority site and articles... Jack…

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]]> By: Dana http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-28887 Dana Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:31:28 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-28887 Why do people look at, like, ONE food eaten by Chinese or Japanese people and decide that that's why they get less cancer than we do? Are there not other significant differences between the Standard American Diet and traditional Chinese and Japanese fare? I can think of a few: (1) They eat less sugar; (2) They eat more vegetables. The sugar issue, in particular, is important: Cancer cells need more glucose than normal cells do. We didn't get a lot of breast cancer HERE, even without the tofu, until we started eating huge quantities of starch (which is broken down into sugar) and sugar (which is broken down into glucose) on a regular basis. Heck, I would imagine that when we were growing Victory Gardens during WWII the rate dropped even lower! Oh, and Brian A.: Nutritional requirements don't change as fast as "advances" in housing styles. We're basically the same folks we were forty thousand years ago. Not that we were necessarily living in caves. You know all those residual little groups of indigenous people still living tribally and still living off the land? The ones whose lifestyles are dying out at an alarming rate because we won't leave them alone? All of us lived like that at some point. The ones who don't die in accidents, interestingly, never seem to get cancer and even live into their sixties and beyond. Why do people look at, like, ONE food eaten by Chinese or Japanese people and decide that that’s why they get less cancer than we do? Are there not other significant differences between the Standard American Diet and traditional Chinese and Japanese fare? I can think of a few: (1) They eat less sugar; (2) They eat more vegetables. The sugar issue, in particular, is important: Cancer cells need more glucose than normal cells do.

We didn’t get a lot of breast cancer HERE, even without the tofu, until we started eating huge quantities of starch (which is broken down into sugar) and sugar (which is broken down into glucose) on a regular basis. Heck, I would imagine that when we were growing Victory Gardens during WWII the rate dropped even lower!

Oh, and Brian A.: Nutritional requirements don’t change as fast as “advances” in housing styles. We’re basically the same folks we were forty thousand years ago. Not that we were necessarily living in caves. You know all those residual little groups of indigenous people still living tribally and still living off the land? The ones whose lifestyles are dying out at an alarming rate because we won’t leave them alone? All of us lived like that at some point. The ones who don’t die in accidents, interestingly, never seem to get cancer and even live into their sixties and beyond.

]]> By: Ryan D http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-27498 Ryan D Wed, 06 Feb 2008 20:55:59 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-27498 "Though Japanese women regularly eat significant portions of soy (in forms like tempeh, edamame, miso and tofu), they have only 1/5 of the breast cancer rate that Western women." Hhmmm, anyone here read the china study? Sounds spot on too me if you read between the lines. “Though Japanese women regularly eat significant portions of soy (in forms like tempeh, edamame, miso and tofu), they have only 1/5 of the breast cancer rate that Western women.”

Hhmmm, anyone here read the china study? Sounds spot on too me if you read between the lines.

]]> By: Janine http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-25758 Janine Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:36:42 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/soy-scrutiny/#comment-25758 What about the health benefits- or detriments- of things like soy nuts, soy lecithin, or the chunks of pre-packaged in water tofu, or even the Mori-Nu silken tofu in the little box?? What about the health benefits- or detriments- of things like soy nuts, soy lecithin, or the chunks of pre-packaged in water tofu, or even the Mori-Nu silken tofu in the little box??

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