Yum, yoga mat! List of foods that include this new food group!

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17. Soy fiber (& soy milk) is one of the most controversial food substances out there...

Westerners don't absorb soy in their systems the same way that Asians do--and Asians eat soy in "whole" food forms, not as processed fiber to pad out food products.

The jury is still out on whether soy promotes cancers, especially estrogen sensitive cancers. More research needs to be done. The benefits of soy may be cancelled out by the negatives, especially if eaten in large amounts.

Soy may be harmful to the thyroid in Westerners. My friend in college who ate tofu and soybeans in any form all the time developed serious hypo-thyroidism at a young age. Not scientific but there ya go.

This is a controversial food additive. And yet the fiber is increasingly being used as a cheap filler in all kinds of foods in this country.

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So--in order not to waste time arguing uselessly--let's just say soy fiber as a food additive is controversial, mkay?