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

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35. OK now I know you're not worth replying to

--re the assertion that saying that Westerners don't absorb soy the way Asians do is "race-based." What a distortion to say that Asians are "gasto-intestinally superior" --it's not superiority, it's about evolution and adaptation to certain foods. People evolve biologically to the foods they eat, & there are many cases other than this particular food. As for the Western diet--especially in America--in the space of a very short time, we've created an industrially modified diet that we may not all adapt to it without negative consequences. It's not one size-fits-all dietary "progress."

Clearly you have little understanding of how this kind of research works. The big picture epidemiological studies that look at associations (ie. correlations) are used as indicators for helping to develop studies that DO get at causal mechanisms. (Didn't you know that?) Yes, researchers have to go beyond it--but it does not invalidate the thesis. That why I say:

Soy is controversial. Especially for Westerners who have not grown up eating it. And also questionable for Asians who do not grow up eating the industrially processed forms of soy food substance.