{"id":239,"date":"2013-07-17T12:19:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-17T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamjacksonphoto.com\/life_and_health\/?p=524"},"modified":"2021-11-01T06:51:31","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T13:51:31","slug":"the-truth-about-soy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/food\/nutrition\/the-truth-about-soy\/12239.html","title":{"rendered":"The Truth about Soy"},"content":{"rendered":"

Soy has been a somewhat controversial food over the last few decades. Clearly, soybeans are packed with protein and other nutrients, but does consuming them come with a cost? Many health claims\u2014both negative and positive\u2014have been leveled at soy over the years; and a large amount of money has been spent on research. What do the experts have to say about the matter?<\/p>\n

To get to the bottom of this we met up with Mark Messina, the executive director of the Soy Nutrition Institute. The knowledge he gained in his 20+ years of soy research was evident in the answers he gave us.<\/p>\n

So here they are, answers to common questions about soy and health <\/strong>(click the links to see the videos):<\/p>\n

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Should men be concerned about consuming soy?<\/a><\/p>\n

What is the relationship between soy and breast cancer?<\/a><\/p>\n

Do soy products help with menopause symptoms?<\/a><\/p>\n

How much soy should someone consume? How much is too much?<\/a><\/p>\n

What types of soy foods are healthiest?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Poke around the internet and you\u2019ll find a lot of controversy surrounding soy. Let\u2019s clear that up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":701,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[203,237,239],"thb-sponsors":[],"yst_prominent_words":[679,825],"class_list":["post-239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nutrition","tag-plant-to-plate-nutrition","tag-soy","tag-soy-products","post_format-post-format-image"],"acf":[],"views":1033,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21488,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239\/revisions\/21488"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"thb-sponsors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thb-sponsors?post=239"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeandhealth.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}