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Question: How do we reconcile "soy is poison" with the fact that some cultures include massive amounts of soy in their diet with little known detriment? For in
by sockaddr 5y ago
Question: How do we reconcile "soy is poison" with the fact that some cultures include massive amounts of soy in their diet with little known detriment?
For instance, the Japanese seem to eat tons of the stuff in various forms all the time but they seem to lead healthy lives.
I don't have any skin in the game, just curious.
- champagnois 5y agoAsian cultures are aware. In China for example, tofu is one of the cheapest possible protein sources (think in terms of a massive pallet of it sold for five dollars) but people are generally aware that it is poisonous in some weird ways that won't kill you. Males are generally urged not to consume it. This could be a knowledge of just the upper class, though. An unspoken suggestion to leave the tofu and soy for the poor.
- simlevesque 5y agoSo it's all a big conspiracy of the elite against the masses ?
- lifeformed 5y agoSo the vast majority of Asians have disrupted endocrine systems?
- sooheon 5y agoAccording to this (https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/nutraceutical/about/soylution/encyclopedia/consumption.html https://www.otsuka.co.jp/en/nutraceutical/about/soylution/en...) Japan consumes 8.19 kg/year/person of soy, while the US consumes 0.04 kg/year/person. That's 200x difference. Japanese life expectancy is half a decade longer than the US, not to mention 1/10 the obesity.
- fomine3 5y agoI'm surprised how big the difference. 40g/y seems to just eat soy once per year, despite soy are farmed in the US.
- ars 5y agoI have no authoritative knowledge here, but the typical answer is they eat mostly fermented soy. I personally have no idea if that actually matters, but that's the answer I've heard.
- blindmute 5y agoAsian cultures also have some of the shortest people, lowest testosterone men, and physically weakest men in the world. Whether this is worth a few more years of lifespan is up to the eater.