A La Carte (12/15)

  • Tim Challies
  • 12/15/06
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Friday December 15, 2006

Music: Matthew Smith is now streaming his new album (the whole album!) at purevolume. It's good album, so give it a listen. You can now buy it from his site or from iTunes.

Weird: Here is a good reason to avoid playing too many video games.

Even Weirder: Is your son gay? Maybe you fed him too much soy as a baby. If you are male and eating soy, "you're suppressing your masculinity and stimulating your 'female side,' physically and mentally."

Entertainment: Ask Yahoo tells us just how much television the average American watches in a lifetime. It is now the third-most common human activity after work and sleep. Imagine if we prayed as much as we watch TV.

Books: John Piper's latest book, "When the Darkness Will Not Lift," is now available from Crossway. The book deals with depression in Christians.

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a comment from Kathleen • 12/16 @ 1:01pm

This is a link to a Johns Hopkins report on soy. Evidently it does affect male animals, although the relationship to human development had not been established 2003:

http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/press/2003/MARCH/030310A.HTM

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a comment from Terry Tiessen • 12/17 @ 12:11am

Tim,

I found the item on soy fascinating. I have read similar statements and they caused me to stop using soy powder as a food supplement in my breakfast drink, some time ago. One thing that puzzles me is that, as far as I know, men in a number of Asian cultures eat plenty of soy and their manliness does not seem ill affected. This looks to me like counter-evidence to the concerns expressed in the article to which you linked, but I’m hesitant to act as though men should not therefore be concerned about the possibly negative effect of eating soy. If you read more about this, on one side or the other, it would be helpful to post those links too, as follow up.

Thanks,Terry Tiessen