In Defense of Soy: Men’s Health vs Men’s Fitness

In 2009 Men’s Health published an article claiming that soy causes “gynecomastia,” better known as man boobs.  One, 60-year-old man developed some real man boobs and took himself to a gland clinic.  It was discovered he was consuming ¾ gallon of soy milk a day.  When told to stop drinking the soymilk, the man’s boobs went away.

In a case of skewed evidence, Men’s Fitness reported in defense of soy, and told the reader to please remember this is equivalent to 24 glasses of soy milk every day.  The effects of this caloric consumption paired with a food diet of any type resulted not only in man boobs but his weight being classified as obese.  Millions of people globally ingest soy protein as a staple in their diet and there are NO reported cases of gynecomastia.  The National Institute of Health has published three studies showing lack of long term evidence that soy consumption causes man boobs or reproductive harm in men.

Men’s Health has said themselves that gynecomastia can be caused by obesity, excessive alcohol, smoking pot, or excessive steroid use.