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January 4, 2006

Soy Many Scares, Soy Little Time

By Jeff Stier, Esq.


Soy worsens heart disease! Or at least, that's what all the papers
would be saying today if soy were an industrial chemical, or even a
pesticide. A study published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation
found that soy-filled diets increased the likelihood of heart disease
-- in certain male mice.

Reports by Reuters and others on the study emphasized scientists'
cautions that the study has no clear implications for humans -- but the
same could be said for virtually every chemical scare that makes
headlines, based as they are upon high-dose rodent studies with little
relevance to ordinary-dose human exposures. Reporters, politicians,
and regulators automatically fall in line to condemn the latest
purported threat (as gauged solely by rodent tests) from industry, but
when the "threat" is just as "real" -- and comes from nature -- society
moves quietly onward, unperturbed.

If the precautionary principle (by which environmentalists decree that
no substance should be used if it shows even the slightest potential
for harm) and EPA regulations (such as the ones inspiring ACSH's recent
lawsuit) were applied to nature as readily as to manmade products, we
have to ban half the molecules on the planet.

Not only environmental activists but most people who shop at Whole
Foods Markets or similar stores will tell you that there is a chance
that non-organic products could be harmful -- and that until they have
proof otherwise, it's "better to be safe than sorry" and so they will
avoid the mainstream food. To be intellectually consistent -- however
foolish -- these shoppers and the organic stores themselves would have
to immediately pull all soy products off the market until we have 100%
proof that this one animal study doesn't apply to humans.

But nature is in, industry is out, and soy will no doubt get a free
ride from the people who usually serve as scaremongers.


Jeff Stier, Esq., makes a mean stir fry and is an associate director of
the American Council on Science and Health (ACSH.org,
HealthFactsAndFears.com).

This information was found online at:
http://www.acsh.org/factsfears/newsI...ews_detail.asp

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