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Article: Got soy? A good food ... but no miracle worker. (Special Feature).
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- Nutrition Action Healthletter
- Article date:
- November 1, 2002
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It's in General Mills's new breakfast cereal for women called Harmony. Bayer's One-A-Day Bone Strength and Cholesterol Health pills have it. And milks, cheeses, and burgers made from it are now a fixture in most supermarkets.
Soy is everywhere. One in four Americans eats a soy food at least once a week, according to a recent industry survey.
"Soy has become the yogurt of the 2000s," says Mark Messina, a soy expert and adjunct professor at Loma Linda University in California.
"In the '70s, yogurt was a healthy food that you only ate if you wanted to live to be 110," Messina explains. "Then it moved into the mainstream. Soy is now ready to follow ...