Anyone else had problems with soy products??!

Anyone else had problems with soy products??

My daughter is 5 and is allergic to dairy. She has been having soy milk and soy yoghurt for about 3 years. She has slight breast budding which is called thelarche. It is a benign condition caused by the leftover oestogen from my breast milk.(that's what the doctor told me). I stopped the soy milk for a few months and the thelarche was practically gone. I reintroduced the soy and it has started to return on one side. Also my daughter's behaviour became intolerable, just like a moody teenager. I realised it could be linked to the soy, so I stopped it at once. My daughter is much more settled and I am just waiting to see if her thelarche goes away too. I'm wondering if the phytoestrogens in the soy milk are responsible. Has anyone else encountered problems like this from using soy milk or soy products??

Despite the many benefits of soy that people are always screaming about, you should know that soy is one of the most recent food products in our dietary history. In other words, not everyone has totally adapted to digesting soy and soy products. The Chinese are probably the most adapted with soy, but even they can still be allergic to it. There's also growing evidence that soy and soy products can increase a body's naturally available estrogen; weight lifters tend to avoid soy products for exactly that reason. For growing young women who are experiencing a rush of hormones, it's probably not a good idea to add additional ones.

I tend to keep my soy products to a minimum, sticking with just edamame (soy beans in the shell) once or twice a week. For a good sources of calcium try shrimp, sesame seeds, spinach, rice milk, calcium fortified orange juice (some can have as much as a cup of milk), and even calcium supplements.