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Perhaps, in these distrustful times, a backlash was to be expected: Thirty years after being introduced as a miracle food in North America--and 5,000 years after its discovery in Asia as an important source of protein--the once-unassuming soybean is suddenly a subject of controversy. For example, one book warns of "the ploy of soy," implying sinister motives on the part of those who grow, market and defend it. Contrary to popular opinion, the naysayers assert, soy can actually be harmful.
Fortunately, this just isn't so, as any reasonably objective survey of the evidence attests. Not even the critics doubt that soy packs a wide-ranging nutritional wallop and ...