soy milk is bad for me??

[Mark Osborne]

Jack Norris recently posted a Response debunking the recent claims that soy is bad for you.

He also covers the issue in detail at http://www.veganhealth.org/articles/soy_harm.

Basically soy appears to be good for you and some nutritionalists would advise against cutting back on soy (e.g. by using almond milk) as soy is a good source of protein.

[Lordmuppet]

as with everything in life, meta-analysis is a beautiful thing

http://www.t-nation.com/free_online_article/sports_body_training_performance_nutrition/soy_whats_the_big_deal

As for Soy turning you gay. Whenever anyone mentions that to me, I go quiet, look very thoughtful and then say ...

"you know now I think about it ... prior to eating soy I used to be all about the ladies but lately I've been feeling ... different. I suppose you might say [voice rising] ... now I'm all about the ****!" then i start cackling like a maniac.

It is a toss up between whether the soy/gay thing is more annoying on account of the homophobia or the sheer stupidity

[nomeat]

soy/gay? erm, bollocks, I would say. There is no relationship between sexual orientation and nutrition. It is more about alternative lifestyles I think, people who have found alternatives in their sexual lives, may also be more open to other alternative ways of living.

[Konstantin]

Can meat make turn you into a homophobic twat?

Can meat destroy that part of your brain that processes nutritional information in a rational manner?

[jpowell]

Can meat destroy that part of your brain that processes nutritional information in a rational manner?

Rumor has it that the existence of a condition called "pernicious ketosis" has been unofficially denied by someone who I could not confirm is a representative of the Western Meat Price Institute. This condition can occur when, through complete avoidance of all carbohydrate-containing, i.e. non-meat foods in the diet, the brain becomes too deprived of glucose to understand why this might be a problem. Apparently they implied this condition is not as serious a medical problem as other nutritional deficiencies, since it tends to be shorter lived.

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