A recent 20 year nutrition study of 8,000 Japanese American men by the U of Hawii Medical School showed that the #1 risk for Altzheimer's was Tofu consumption. Even those who showed no overt signs of Altzheimer's were found to suffer significant loss of brain weight upon autopsy in direct relation to Tofu consumption. A recent Nova Program (PBS) "What Causes Altzheimer's" showed that the two closest disorders to Altzheimer's were both caused by eating different types of beans (one in India and one in Guam). The same program also explained why aluminum was suspected and then discarded as a possible cause. What usually makes a bean a bean ( and thus inedible when raw) are neurotoxins. Many types share the same toxins found in soy but in varying amounts. Soy products such as TSP (invented by John Harvey Kellogg) and soy lethicin ( invented to dispose of toxic soy husk waste) are found in almost all processed food products. Read labels carefully! Ray Audette Author "NeanderThin" http://www.neanderthin.com