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RE: Food for thought: The common household ingredient that scientists claim is WORSE for you than sugar.
I'm not really buying your argument here that meat is worse than soy. I did a simple google search of estrogen in meat vs soy and found these charts.
Phytoestrogen is not like mammalian estrogen. Animal products contain both much less phytoestrogen and lots of mammalian estrogen .
That bottom chart is misleading. They are measuring two completely different types of things there.
Aren't 'simple' Google great?
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/j.1442-200X.2009.02890.x
You also say soy beans are nothing to worry about when it comes to Phytoestrogen.
The charts show soy is very high in Phytoestrogen.
This study says Phytoestrogen lowers sperm count.
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/news-blog/soy-vey-does-eating-tofu-lower-sper-2008-07-23/
Not the best study since it's only 99 men but better than the 18 people in your study :)
Soy sure does seem like it has a bunch of problems/controversy around it compared to other vegetables.
Like I said before for every study you find claiming it's good I can find one claiming it's bad. So it's debatable who's right.
Who knows we both could be right.
https://www.mercola.com/Downloads/bonus/dangers-of-soy/report.aspx
Yes soy is second only to flaxseed for phytoestrogen which is a weak plant estrogen. It's like comparing tier B to the tier A estrogens from mammals. Doesn't make any sense to me.
So you stayed with scientific American and just clicked over from your last article to a tiny blurb about a study but the link only sends me to a blank PDF
Yes, there is definitely a lot of that, but you only have to look into who funding the study. The meat/dairy/egg lobbies have to smear soy the most because of the competition it offers. They are fine with it as their animal feed and as a cheap ingredient in processed foods only.
But, like I said, to prove it to myself I eat between 2-4 servings of soy a day for 1 year now. Nothing has changed, like zip, zero, zilch. I'm obviously not going to fuck myself up, if I notice something odd, I will definitely let everyone know. You can hold me to that.
I wrote a piece early on in my steemit adventure about antinutrients misconception.
https://steemit.com/heath/@venomnymous/the-antinutrient-misconception
I packed a lot of studies in that piece.
I wouldn't put any trust in mercola, he shills a lot and pushed a lot of bullshit and misinformation in that article.