soy

In college, my roommates and I had a desk drawer stuffed shut with extra hot mustard, duck sauce and soy sauce packets.

Now, despite soy's salty reputation, food scientists believe adding soy sauce to food could cut salt without sacrificing flavor.

Swapping soy into salad dressings and soup is capable of dropping salt content by 17% to 50%.

Now if you're jonesing for the fruits of summer. Remember, autumn ushers in a bounty of delicious fall vegetables.

Soy. Skim Milk. Synthol.

One of these things turns you into a circus freak.

Another helps with uptake of amino acids, and the third is even better.

The Revivial Slim & Beautiful Diet has hit the bookshelves. The book is written by Dr Aaron Tabor along with his mother Suzanne Tabor. The diet promises an "average weight loss of 26 to 29 pounds in just sixteen weeks" and that you will "quickly reduce gelatinous belly fat".

Silk Soy Milk have been running an unusual TV advertising campaign in which the main characters are cows. The cows have opted for a healthier lifestyle by drinking soy milk.

Every week I receive a number of emails from various vendors touting their wares. This week I received an email from a Japanese company who make the "Okara Cookie" - a cookie that is "made from soybean mainly".

Soy is controversial. Is it a health food or could it harm your health? Both schools of thought can point to evidence to back-up their claims, and the amount of information available is simply bewildering.