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I have heard the author interviewed on the radio (for Peoples Pharmacy), and I found her very suspicious. The way Kaayla Daniel presented facts in the interview was manipulating and sensationalist. So I looked around the internet this evening. Here are some things that I pulled up. All of this can be verified in a few minutes on the web. 1)The author's PhD is from the Union Institute and University in Cincinnati. This is a distance learning program (that is she didn't actually go there to study), and they only list 5 PhD degrees programs offered - none at all close to nutrition science. Kaayla Daniel is not your typical PhD writing about nutrition. 2)She is a board member of the Weston Price Foundation, which seems to encourage alternatative diets, and in particular raw milk diets. For example their 2006 calendar includes 6 separate events relating to raw milk and milking cows. The institute holds an annual conference which includes sessions on "Raw Milk Activism" and the "Magical powers of raw whole milk". 3) The publisher of this book, New Trends Publishing, only lists Daniel's book for books published in 2005. Only seven books, total, are listed on the web page. As noted by another review here, those seven books include "The Cholesterol Myths", and "The Whole Milk Story" which documents the "superiority of raw milk and its myriad health benefits". Interestingly, I don't think that Daniel is a corporate stooge, or something. Her interview didn't sound that way. Rather she appears to be part of an odd group of raw milk activists, and coincidentally she became a soy debunker. And guess what - she is showing up all over the place in interviews and stories in new age and nutritional magazines and shows. Seems a lot of people sure wanna here this stuff, regardless of the source. If there is one thing that we know from recent science its that very few scientific pronouncements about diet have held up - recently low fat diets and high fiber diets were debunked by enormous and definitive randomized trial studies. The human body seems to adapt pretty well to what we put in it, and given all the mixed messages about soy - I'm guessing that its all just the noise and artifacts of small studies. The final word about soy may be that humans deal with soy as well as it does with most other foods. But who would buy that book?