please  please please, Umbra! Don't counsel your readers to ask their health care providers about nutrition, especially when it concerns so-called alternative anything. Medical doctors are not well-trained in nutrition, just as they are not well-trained in preventative health care. I have a number of MDs in my family and there are two things that are consistently true about them and about other doctors I know and have known: they don't know a lot about nutrition and they often won't admit that they don't. A naturopath might be a better place to start with the soy question.