Rodibaugh is not saying that eating soy foods will, by itself, reduce your risk of heart attack or cancer.
Recent studies do, however, show some benefits from products such as tofu and soy milk.
She says if soy milk and tofu, which is coagulated soy milk similar to cheese, don't appeal to you, there are other soy-based foods to choose from. There are soy burgers, soy hot dogs, soy pepperoni and soy sausage. The imitation bacon bits you put on your salad are a soy product. There's soy cheese. You can even buy the isolated soy protein and textured vegetable protein.