10 Nutrition Myths: Soy Causes Breast Cancer and Nutrition Advice Keeps Changing A Lot

All this week, the Brian Lehrer Show will be taking a closer look at some of the most pervasive nutrition myths with Sophie Egan, author of How to Be a Conscious Eater: Making Food Choices That Are Good for You, Others, and the Planet (Workman, 2020), and contributor to the New York Times, most recently the article "10 Nutrition Myths Experts Wish Would Die." Today, busting the myths that consuming soy products increases the risk of breast cancer and that nutrition advice keeps changing a lot with Marion Nestle, professor emerita of nutrition, food studies, and public health at NYU and the author of many books, including her latest, Slow Cooked: An Unexpected Life in Food Politics (University of California Press, 2022).