Re:Tofu and mental degeneration

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In a message dated 1/31/04 1:16:52 AM Pacific Standard Time, writes:

Message: 10

Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 21:34:35 -0000

From: "katrinacrader" <katnap@...>

Subject: Re: Tofu linked to mental deficiency (??)

>this is the same study often mentioned here and discussed by

Walford in his

>book - an old story.

My apologies. I should have checked the archives, but today is very

busy for me.

> AFA the other site about soy, "if you read it on the web, it must

be true,

>right"?

I never made any claim about its accuracy. Why do you doubt it?

K.

I'll tell you why I doubt. I wonder, who made up this study? The very topic is suspect because it seems like whoever created it wanted to spin a negative light on tofu in the first place. I mean, why would anyone just all of the sudden study the mental health of those who ate a lot of tofu unless they wanted to find something.

a

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Hi a:

Of course you could say exactly the same thing about the results of

ANY study.

Are there ANY studies the results of which you are prepared to accept

as not being contrived by the author, to make a case that he was

determined to make no matter the truth?

If there are such studies, what criteria do you you use to

distinguish those that are maliciously contrived from those that are

not? And what evidence do you have that this particular tofu study

was maliciously contrived? And what makes you so sure that the

studies showing benefits of tofu were not contrived by the tofu

industry, or agribusiness?

I do not have a view about the tofu/mental health study. But I am

concerned about a great deal of negative stuff about soy, some of it

from apparently serious sources. It is enough for me to minimize my

consumption of soy until the facts become clearer. A course that

seems to me to have zero risk.

It may eventually turn out that soy is as wonderful as its

protagonists now believe. Of course it may eventually turn out

otherwise. I will not have a view as to which it is, until I have

better evidence than I have now.

Rodney.

> In a message dated 1/31/04 1:16:52 AM Pacific Standard Time,

> writes:

>

I mean, why would anyone just all of the

> sudden study the mental health of those who ate a lot of tofu

unless they

> wanted to find something.

>

> a

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Hi Francesca:

I agree. We all are aware of the issue about soy, and can make our

own choices.

Rodney.

>

> > Hi a:

> >

> > Of course you could say exactly the same thing about the results

of

> > ANY study.