Safety and Tolerability of Soy Fiber

Inclusion Criteria: * Adult (70 - 85 years). * Body mass index between 30 and 40 kg/m2. * No evidence of diabetes (fasting blood sugar \<126 mg/dL). * No evidence of dementia (MMSE score \> 25). * No evidence of depression. (Geriatric Depression Scale-15 \[GDS-15\] \< 6. * Are weight stable (\< 3 kg weight change in the past three months). Exclusion Criteria: * Have type 1 or type 2 diabetes currently being treated by medication. * Report clinically significant gastrointestinal malabsorption syndromes such as chronic diarrhea, or celiac disease. * Are being treated with medications that have a significant effect on insulin resistance, obesity, and metabolic rate, or medications that significantly increase body weight such as antidepressants, second-generation antipsychotics, systemic glucocorticoids, and adrenergic blockers or stimulators (unless the dose and body weight have been stable for six months). * Have serum triglyceride concentrations \> 400 mg/dl. * Clinically significant abnormal laboratory markers (as determined by the medical investigator). * Subjects with anticipated surgery during the study period. * Subjects with a reported history of substance abuse or alcoholism or significant psychiatric disorder that would interfere with the ability to complete the study. * Subjects who are current smokers or have smoked within the previous three months. Smoking is not permitted during the study. * Subjects who are unable to provide a baseline blood or fecal sample or if they have any condition that impedes testing of the study hypothesis or makes it unsafe to consume the food being tested in the study (determined by the investigative team). * Women on hormone replacement therapy unless weight has been stable over the last six months.