There is an epidemic of all kinds of autoimmune disease in children. I wonder if it is related to the widespread use of soy proteins in our foods. Dr. Kaayla Daniel documents in her book, The Whole Soy Story, the research that suggests that soy affects the gut in a way that makes it more permeable to larger proteins and makes allergies far more likely to occur. The surge in peanut allergies may be related, especially as soy protiens are very similar to those of peanuts, a similar plant.

Unfermented Soy is a relatively new component in the human food supply. It is cheap and provides an outlet for surplus grown by agribusiness, but the research shows that despite the spin put out to define it as "health food" it is much better described as "Disease food."