usual suspect added:
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> Note what I actually wrote: TEND to use fermented soy and consume
> unfermented soy products SPARINGLY.
>
> http://www.mercola.com/2000/jan/9/truth_about_soy.htm
> http://www.westonaprice.org/soy/soy_update2001.html
>
> And note the following, hillbilly:
> Typically soy foods are divided into two categories:
> non-fermented and fermented soy products. Traditional
> nonfermented soy foods include fresh green soybeans, whole dry
> soybeans, soy nuts, soy sprouts, whole-fat soy flour, soymilk
> and soymilk products, tofu, okara and yuba. Traditional
> fermented soy foods include tempeh, miso, soy sauces, natto and
> fermented tofu and soymilk products. In Asia, the
> traditional fermented soy foods are considered to have more
> health promoting benefits when consumed in moderate amounts than
> the super-processed soy products that are consumed in the West.
> http://www.wellbeingjournal.com/soy.htm

It's probably NOT a good idea to give soy in large amounts to little
kids because the high quantity of phytoestrogens (those isoflavones
marketers use to peddle their goods) can delay or prevent sexual maturity.

Rat pups, exposed to high doses of the plant estrogen coumestrol
(found in sunflower seeds and oil and alfalfa sprouts) through
their mother's milk, suffered permanent reproductive problems:
female pups when grown did not ovulate, and males had altered
mounting behavior and fewer ejaculations (2).
[Whitten, P., C. Lewis and F. Naftolin. 1993. A Phytoestrogen
diet induces the premature anovulatory syndrome in lactationally
exposed female rats. Biology of Reproduction 49:1117-21.]

Neonatal and immature rats exposed to coumestrol experienced
estrogen-related responses, such as premature estrous cycles.
Coumestrol also interrupted ovarian cycles in adult female rats
(3).
[Barrett, J. 1996. Phytoestrogens: Friends or Foes?
Environmental Health Perspectives 104:478-82.]

Newborn rats exposed to the phytoestrogen genistein (a compound
found in soy products), experienced altered hormone secretions
and the onset of puberty may have been delayed because female
rats were exposed to the compound as fetuses (3).
[Ibid.]

“In males, levels of 17B-estradiol and testosterone were not
affected, but levels of 3a, 17B- androstanediol glucuronide (a
metabolite of dihydrotestosterone) and dehydroepiandrosterone
sulfate were decreased by 13% and 14%, respectively, after 2-4
weeks of daily soya ingestion.”
[Supported by USPHS CA56273, CA65628, CA45181, John Sealy
Memorial Endowment Fund for Biomedical Research, American
Institute for Cancer Research grant 95B119, and NIH NCRR GCRC
grant M01 RR00073]

All above lifted from:
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Additionally, see:
http://www.t-mag.com/articles/185soy.html
http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/satter6.htm

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