Word: soy
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...first glance, Dr. Andrew Weil's 8 Weeks to Optimum Health plan looks easy. Dr. Weil, reasonable fellow, says eat salmon, olive oil, garlic, soy sauce, ginger, broccoli. I like all that stuff. But Weil, dietary despot, also suggests eating tofu, which is organic styrofoam; drinking Japanese green tea, which tastes like water in which tadpoles have died; and popping 6,000 mg a day of vitamin C, which sours my giblets. I'll give these a miss. And, ouch, here it comes: "Moderate or eliminate intake of animal foods, booze, coffee and news...
...does Shandler work her medicinal magic? The ingredients she weaves into each and every recipe--flaxseed, soy milk, tofu--contain chemical compounds known as phytoestrogens, which are estrogens produced by plants. Forget the fact that tofu doesn't taste particularly good, Shandler breezily advises. "It's like flour. Flour is a useful ingredient. Nobody expects it to taste good." Just throw a little silken tofu into a blender, add a splash of vanilla extract, a sprinkling of cocoa powder, a dollop of maple syrup, and you'll see. "I truly love this food," she insists, and so, apparently...
...Soy milk appeals to an aging "baby boomer" population seeking plant-derived foods, McGee says...
...Vitasoy's rising popularity among Harvard students, McGee adds, is proof that not just the above-50 crowd are becoming soy fans...
...find out that it's being served in the Harvard dining halls is really good news," she says. "We're at Harvard--now intelligent people are drinking soy milk."CrimsonDavid WichsVitasoy, a popular brand of Soy Milk...