Soy Milk, is it good or bad?

It it very interesting to see soy milk gets bad press in the US by various so-called "health experts". This is extremely odd to me because I have been drinking soy milk (called Dou Jiang in Mandarin Chinese) since I was little. My mom would pay this old lady who had a breakfast stand to feed us breakfast (soy milk or rice milk with some bread buns). The soy milk and the bread were always made by hand and made on the same day. The old lady would get up at 3am everyday and start preparing the soy milk and her bread to our town. We drank a small bowl a day (around 300cc) as part of our breakfast for years.

However, the way I see people consume soy milk in the US is to drink soy milk as their beverage all day long. Not that there's anything wrong with that, but the wisdom says that even the good thing will turn bad when consumed in excessive amount. I used to buy my soy milk from the store and they would last in the refrigerator for a couple of weeks without going bad after I opened it. Homemade soy milk takes just a day or two to rot. From that point, I rarely purchase soy milk in the US. I pick my soybeans carefully and only drink homemade soy milk.

In ancient Chinese medical text, soy milk was considered to supplement vacuity and moisten the dryness, to clear heat and to move the intestine and bowl. In Asia, sometimes women who don't have enough breast milk would feed their babies soy milk. Babies are very healthy and balanced.

So if you like soy milk, prepare it by yourself and don't buy it from the store. Make sure to purchase non-GMO soybeans and make sure the soybeans are not tainted with aspergillus flavus (a type of fungus).

To good health,