SOY PRODUCTS ARE TURNING OUR YOUTH GAY!

[kahljorn]

Russo I was actually thinking of bringing that up, but then I got distracted by the fact that a) not all japanese and chinese people are feminine looking B) Japan is a small island so naturally it'd be full of small people and C) it's too complicated! Most asian people are small and alot of them haven't had access to soy products.

To be honest the effect of this would be minimal and taking enough phytoestrogens to even come close to the amount to make an estrogen shift would be dangerous (you'd have to combine ALOT of different types of phytoestrogens), and not only that but like derrida mentioned it's speculated to not have much of an estrogenic effect at all. If it does have an estrogenic effect it's usually negligible.

One thing this thread reminds me of is the big deal health people make over soy because they are usually all genetically modified plant material. Soy beans were originally supposed to be quite difficult to grow/harvest/eat. Although, supposedly in america you can't sell any product that is "Too" genetically modified. i.e. you could sell a rice product that had another rice gene added to it, but you couldn't sell a rice product that had cockroach or shark genes added to it (for human consumption, anyway).