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

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26. That's... interesting

Similarly, epidemiological evidence of humans eating soya products is currently divided: a study of Japanese men between 1965 and 1999 demonstrated a positive correlation between brain atrophy and consumption of tofu meals, and a study on elderly Indonesian men and women found that high tofu intake was associated with poorer memory, but the consumption of tempeh was associated with better memory.

First, of course, correlation does not translate into causation. Second... Japanese and Indonesians? What happened to the race-based diet thing you had 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.

Third... do you know what tempeh is? You know it's soy, right? Interestingly, tempeh has far less non-soy in it than tofu does - tempeh being pretty much straight beans, and tofu having all sorts of coagulants nad emulsifiers, plus the effects of cooking and all that. So is it the devil's bean hindering the memory if the gastrointestinally-superior Asians, or is the the wide variety of stuff that emulsifies, or is it all just completely unrelated and simply a correlation?

I'm not telling you to "knock it off," I'm telling you that you need to have your pants on before you start marching.