Susan wrote: >>When I was a vegetarian, and I was for about 5 years I ate >>TONS of soy products thinking I was improving my health. >>What it did for me was another matter, as it supressed >>my immune system, and caused me some severe medical >>problems which took over a year to remedy. >>Now that I eat paleo, I have a happy and healthy >>immune system. As far as I'm concerned soy is poison. Ken wrote: >Since you were a vegetarian, wasn't it possible >that there were a half dozen other things >responsible for your health problems, and so >it would be difficult to pin it just on the soy ? Ken's right. One example: here in Australia, the supermarket soy milks range from less than 1% to over 7% sugar. I used the <1% product for a year and had no complaints. Since going fully Paleo I have had no recurrence of the prostate pain I had before i started taking soy in a big way (about two litres a day) Keith