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Modern soy products contain antinutrients and toxins -- megnut.com

You've gotta do better than this. This article is by Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, who have also published a cookbook called Nourishing Traditions , subtitled "The Cookbook that Challenges Politically Correct Nutrition and the Diet Dictocrats." From the publisher's page, we learn:

Ms Enig also has a page called "Cholesterol and Heart Disease" in which we learn that "Blood cholesterol levels between 200 and 240 mg/dl are normal. These levels have always been normal." Ms Enig is the president of the Maryland Nutritionists Association, which appears to be her entire qualification in nutrition.

Ms Fallon, who has a English degree from Stanford, is a follower of Weston Price, whose website claims that "humans achieve perfect physical form and perfect health generation after generation only when they consume nutrient-dense whole foods and the vital fat-soluble activators found exclusively in animal fats." Ms Fallon also believes that canola oil is dangerous, but can be offset by supplementation with animal fats. Do you really want to be taking a 7-year-old article by these people seriously, especially given that soymilk production heats the slurry precisely to destroy the protease inhbitors Ms Fallon is so het up about? You think they might have an agenda? Does this look like nutrition science to you? No carnivore like a converted carnivore, I guess.

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