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Soy milkSoy milk is a healthy, eco-friendly alternative to dairy, but it does carry its own health concerns. Because it's highly processed, milk soy can contain plant estrogens that have been linked to a number of female cancers. Furthermore, the cultivation of soybeans is estimated to have destroyed close to 20 percent of the Amazon rain forest in the past 40 years. The take home? Don't rule out unprocessed soy products (tempeh, for instance), and unrefined soy milks, but make sure you know the origin of your soy.
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Anyone can make soymilk in their own kitchen with nothing but a blender, a big pot, and cooking fuel. If one is sure to get organic, non-GM soybeans, I don't see that the result is PROCESSED in a detrimental way.
(And, by the way, soymilk is NOT processed - and even if it were, that is not why it has phytoestrogens. That's just plain sloppy. Soy protein isolate, ok, THAT is processed. But soymilk is like orange juice: there's the citrus, and there's water.) Here are some quotes with links to start with: http://www.pcrm.org/health/prevmed/soy_health.html "Why.... More
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