SB Says Include Soy

Pauline Wisdom-Gilliam, Registered Dietitian, at Sunnybrook recommendss including moderate amounts of soy into your diet, even if you have hormone-sensitive ...

If you have a hormone-sensitive breast cancer, then you certainly still can include soy as part of a healthy, mainly plant-based diet. Again, the recommendation is that you would have soy in moderate amounts, and generally what we suggest is you limit it to a serving a day, as is typically found in asian diets, and if you happen to be on a tamoxifen or some other anti-estrogen medication, then again you can still include soy, as part of a balanced diet. Natural soy foods like tofu or miso, or edamame is certainly fine to include, and as I say, you can have a serving a day, it would be okay. If you are ER-negative then the soy issue really is not one of concern, and as with any woman who enjoys soy foods, you can include that as part of a diet, and there doesn't reallly seem to be any issues, in terms of the limits.