The Skinny on Soy - Softcover

Marie Oser

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1940184355 ISBN 13: 9781940184357

Publisher: Vegan Publishers, 2016

Synopsis

Soy. Mention its benefits in polite company and brace yourself for a barrage of questions and accusations directed at soy and all the products made from it. The Skinny on Soy addresses the continuing campaign to cast doubt on the safety of consuming soyfoods with peer-reviewed research and common sense. Soy has a long and venerable history spanning fifty centuries of Asian culture and has been the subject of more than seventy years of research in the scientific community. If you are a health-conscious consumer interested in eating tasty, wholesome, and convenient plant-based meals more often, but have cut back or eliminated soy from the menu, this book is written for you. The Skinny on Soy speaks with top experts in the field to shed light on the issues and sort out the claims behind the mountain of anti-soy rhetoric. Sit back, pour yourself a tall glass of soymilk, and join the author in sorting through the allegations and rumors that have cast a shadow on soy for well over a decade.

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About the Author

Marie Oser is a best-selling author, healthy lifestyle expert, and environmental advocate with a focus on nutrition and its role in disease prevention. Vegetarian since 1971 and vegan since 1990, Marie left a career in television advertising to pursue her interest in food, health, nutrition, and the environment. She began writing for major metros and national magazines in 1990 and was a nationally syndicated newspaper columnist, features writer, and regular contributor to publications such as Vegetarian Gourmet, Vegetarian Times, Great Life, Natural Health, Today's Dietitian, and Spa magazine. Marie is Host and Executive Producer of VegTV. VegTV has been producing content since early 2001 and currently hosts 800 original videos on 9 channels featuring popular cooking segments and interviews with celebrities, prominent authors, and medical and nutrition experts. She's also Managing Editor at Ecomii, a leading environmental site. At the Food & Health Alternative, Oser and her team of experts report on creative natural solutions for issues affecting health and well-being and cutting edge strategies for optimal health. Marie lives in Southern California. The Skinny on Soy is her fifth book.

Review

No one knows more about soy than Marie Oser, and her new book is a well-researched, enjoyable read. Soymilk, soy ice cream, soy cheese they are everywhere nowadays. The Skinny on Soy relies on the latest science and expert input to tell you everything you ever wanted to know about the health benefits of soy. --Neal Barnard, MD "author and president of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine"

With a calm, clear voice backed by solid scientific studies, in The Skinny on Soy, Marie Oser dispels the myths and non-truths that the anti-soy activists have used to besmirch one of most valuable foods eaten by humans around the world. In this age when evolution to a plant-based diet holds the key to our personal health and planetary survival, The Skinny on Soy lets us enthusiastically embrace the simple soybean the legume for a livable future. So, thank you, Ms. Oser for this well-researched and enlightening book, which I will recommend to my colleagues, friends, and patients and, please, pass the edamame! --Michael Klaper, MD, author, educator, and clinician

When profit, addiction, and ignorance coagulate, pernicious industries like meat and dairy thrive. The truth is constantly on a treadmill powered by vested interests in the animal industrial complex. For enlightened values to prevail, truth is a necessary, but alas, not a sufficient precondition. Marie Oser s book delivers the truth. It utterly debunks and demolishes the folly of the anti-soy lobby. She hunts down the Big 5 (heart disease, stroke, diabetes, obesity, and high blood pressure) and cites the most eminent of authorities on the subject. Her book is a necessary antiseptic, an antidote, a welcome disinfectant against nonsense. --Philip Wollen, Australian philanthropist and founder of the Winsome Constance Kindness Trust

About this edition

• Publisher: Vegan Publishers
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1940184355
• ISBN 13: 9781940184357
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 195
• Illustrator: Nicola May Design