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Not-so-healthy eating: the trouble with soy

For four days during the Third International Soy Symposium, held in Washington, DC in November 1999, well-funded scientists who gathered in the nation’s capital made presentations to an admiring press and to their sponsors, including the likes of Monsanto and numerous soybean associations.

The symposium marked the apogee of a decade-long marketing campaign to gain consumer acceptance of tofu (bean curd), soy milk, soy ice cream, soy cheese, soy sausage and soy derivatives, particularly soy isoflavones such as genistein and diadzein, the oestrogen-like compounds found in soybeans.

The meeting coincided with the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) decision, announced October 25, to allow a health claim for products 'low in saturated fat and cholesterol' that contain 6.25 grams of soy protein per serving. Breakfast cereals, baked goods, convenience food, smoothie mixes and meat substitutes can now be sold with labels touting benefits to cardi...

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