The Soy Story

Before I write any further- I want to mention to you all that I love, LOVE Soy milk. I actually like the taste of it. It is cruelty-free, has no cholesterol and gives good amounts of Calcium, Vitamin D, Vitamin E, Vitamin B-12, protein among the others. My favourite is the vanilla soy milk. But I enjoy the original too.

By NO means is this dis-illusional. Before I saw this video on you tube, I had atleast 1 glass of soy milk per day, Tofu about 2-3 times per week, edamame- once per week and Soy nutrela/ Soy TVP about once per week. Now you can well imagine how much I enjoy soy products. And i have great respect for those who have shifted to cruelty-free foods.

Before I start to include anything in my diet- I research it. For me it is simple. If my fore-fathers and their fore-fathers have eaten any particular food for decades and hundreds of years- then my body too can handle it. It is in our system. But if my fore-fathers and their fore-fathers haven’t eaten it- then definitely my body is not very adaptable to it. That goes true for beef and pork. Being brought up into a GSB household- most of the GSB have survived on fish for centuries. But beef and pork- NOT. So I minimize my intake of these two. I may taste it when I go out and that is it. It is pretty simple.

SO when I started soy in my diet- I was initially too busy to research it. Back in India I did have good amount of Soy Nutrella in diet (similar to TVP- Textured vegetable protein) and In our chapati flour there was a handful of soy flour. But drinking soy milk once/ twice daily is a big jump.

So when I google’d/ youtube’d the side-effects of soy milk, I was pretty shocked and surprised to see what I found. I do not know whether this is a gimmick or just negative publicity on the part of the people who have put up that kind of videos.

If you or your friends have justifications/ or any information to this, kindly drop a line. Your inputs are highly appreciated.

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