Soy Milk

Those who are lactose intolerant or who don't wish to consume animal products for whatever reason, have a choice of wide range of alternative milks. Soy milk is the most common. Ensure that your soy milk comes from non-genetically modified soybeans by sticking with an organic brand such as Silk, Edensoy, Vitasoy, or Pacific. Pacific also makes organic hazelnut, almond, rice, and oat milks.

Too Much Of A Good Thing?

Soybean is know to contain a weak plant estrogen that may help to prevent breast cancer. They contain omega-3 fatty acids, which prevent heart attacks, the fiber helps to prevent diabetes. 

But soybeans also contain  trypsin inhibitors that can block protein consumption and hemagglutinin, which causes clots to form. So, large amounts of soybeans could make clots that can damage your heart or lungs. It can also make pancreas work too hard to overcome the blocked protein effect. 

Soybean also contain goitrogens, which block thyroid function. Large doses can slow your thyroid.

Soybean also contain phytates, which could block the absorptions of minerals.

The rule is do not eat five, ten, or twenty servings a day of any single food, no matter what promoters or advertisers say.

Down Side of Legumes

Soybeans contain substances that destroy beta carotene and vitamins B12 and D; beans and peas have anti-vitamin E compound. Heating and cooking inactivates most of these substances, but it is a good practice to balance legume consumption with ample fresh fruits and yellow or dark green vegetables, seeds, nuts, cooked greens, and poultry.

Caution: Soybeans

Raw soybeans, including soybean sprouts, contain a toxin that must be destroyed by thorough cooking before eating. Because the effects of exposure to estrogenlike compounds in plants early in life are not yet known, the advice is to give soy formula to infants only when there is no other alternative.

Lower Risk of hormone-related cancers

Beans, flaxseeds, pomegranates, and soy foods - contain compounds that may lower the risk of hormone related cancers, as well as relieve fibrocystic breasts, osteoarthritis, and symptoms of peri-menopause and menopause.