On Wed, 10 Aug 2016, Julie Bove wrote:

>
> "Nancy2" > wrote in message
> ...
>> Oh, wah wah. Anyone with half a brain could look at the current food chart
>> and come up with nutritious meals and snacks for growing kids which would
>> be attractive to those growing kids. It certainly doesn't take all kinds
>> of weird
>> shit even I wouldn't eat. Quinoa? I swear it smells like chicken feed,
>> which
>> I am familiar with from my farm childhood. I would rather eat a dog
>> biscuit.
>>
>> For a substitute for protein, let me recommend an Atkins dark chocolate
>> Protein bar. They are super tasty and have a meal's worth of protein. My
>> 12-
>> year-old grandson loves them and he is a super specimen of a healthy
>> growing
>> Kid...skillful in TKD, basketball and football, and gets straight-A grades.
>
> You'd better hope your grandson doesn't get a thyroid problem from eating all
> that soy protein.
>

In people with normal thyroid function and good iodine levels, there's no
risk to thyroid function from soy.
<https://www.google.com/search?q=soy+and+thyroid>

Now, if we're going to talk about how soy is a phytoestrogen, and what
effect THAT might have on young boys and girls... there seems to be some
controversy there.

However, eating one protein bar a day isn't going to cause any
ill-effects, probably not even 2 a day, for a healthy growing kid.