Is Soy Good or Bad for Us?
Well, I used to, like everyone else, think that soy-based products were fine. In fact, I thought they were so fine, and actually good for you, that I would eat them in plentiful abundance some days when I didn’t feel like eating meat. I love the flavor of most soy based processed products, but I do have one complaint about them, and that is they seem to make my breath really bad, and bad for hours too, after I eat them, so it hangs on.
I’m still not quite sure why they do that to me, but they also do that to my boyfriend, whom I’ve gotten to try quite a few soy products like tofu and soy burgers and soy cheese.
Sometimes you just don’t know who to believe when you read about foods that are supposedly good for you and foods that are supposedly bad for you, but for some reason I believe this guy Dr. Mercola, whose newsletter I signed up for through a naturopathic health site one day.
I periodically will get these emails, and won’t read every single one of them, but this specific one I did because it said something about soy being one of the worst things you can eat, and how the soy industry has tricked us into thinking soy is a health food. Well, this of course sort of blew up my theory that I was eating healthy when eating these soy based (processed soy though) products.
Apparently, there is a good type of soy and a bad type, and the type that is processed for the meat imitations and so forth is not good, and can actually do more harm than good when consumed in any sort of quantity. Apparently it can do harm because it produces so many estrogen compounds in the body that can actually interfere with the production and healthy activity of the real, human estrogen in the body.
After reading it, I felt very schooled in the truth about soy, although of course I cannot vouch for the fact that this Dr. is 100% right or does not have ulterior motives of some sort. However, what he said did make sense, and I’ve decided to still enjoy soy products, but only in moderation.