Nutriton and bone growth

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For years soy has been looked at as a breast cancer and heart disease preventer, bone protecter, a lessoner of menopause symptoms and many others. Recent studies now show that we've been loading up on soy with no real clear evidence of findings that soy does all these things. Neither a group of breast-cancer suvivors nor post-menopausal women who took a soy supplement experienced any relief.

To make matters worse, soy's role in helping to prevent breast cancer is also being rethought. Soy has been found to block human estrogen, thereby inhibiting the growth of breast cancer cells. However, plant hormones called isoflavones, may also act like the estrogen hormone and actually promote growth in existing tumor

Something else to comfort the soy lovers of the world, that in actual animal studies, soy (isoflavones) lessens bone loss. And in recent studies, research found that eating soy foods can reduce heart-disease risk without contributing to hormone cancer.

At Texas University it was found that pre-menopausal women who took in 158mg of isoflavones had lower levels of estrogen that may increase breast-cancer risk, and at the same time, higher levels of a form of estrogen were found that could lower risks.

Like the old clique, it's better to be safe than sorry, doctors are now telling us that it's ok to eat soy supplements or soy food a few times a week but if you have a large intake or are just not sure about it you should talk to your doctor. Ther

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