Do a board search on past info about soy - it's good for women's health,
10/06/04 12:05 PM
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Heather
Reged: 12/09/02
Posts: 7799
Loc: Seattle, WA
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not bad, and if anything it will alleviate menopause symptoms, not worsen them. Soy contains phytoestrogens - these can lock onto estrogen receptors in the body in place of real estrogen, which means that the real estrogen will be excreted at a higher rate. This what you want, because it lowers the net amount of estrogen circulating in the body. Lower estrogen = lower breast cancer rates. As an aside here, the people with the highest soy consumption rate in entire world are the Okinawans, in Japan. They are also the longest-lived people in the world, and they have some of the lowest breast and reproductive cancer rates. They also have pretty much zero problems with menopause. It's thought that soy is one of the main reasons for this.
So, do your own research here, check your sources of information, make sure you're looking at double-blind studies published by legitimate clinical researchers. When you do that, the evidence in favor of soy, especially for women (but also for men - it lowers prostate cancer and protects against heart disease) is overwhelming.
- Heather
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