AHA: Soy doesn't really help with cholesterol

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American Heart Association committee reviewed a decade of studies on soy's benefits and came up with results that are now casting doubt on the health claim that soy-based foods and supplements significantly lower cholesterol.

Neither soy nor the soy component isoflavone reduced symptoms of menopause, such as "hot flashes," and that isoflavones don't help prevent breast, uterine or prostate cancer. Results were mixed on whether soy prevented postmenopausal bone loss.

Nutrition experts say soy-based foods don't have as much direct benefit as had been hoped on cholesterol, one of the top risk factors for heart disease.

The FDA in 1999 started allowing manufacturers to claim that soy products might cut the risk of heart disease after studies showed at least 25 grams of soy protein a day lowered cholesterol but these recent studies will lead the Food and Drug Administration to re-evaluate rules that currently allow companies to tout a cholestorol-lowering benefit on the labels of soy-based food.

American Heart Association: http://www.americanheart.org
Food and Drug Administration: http://www.fda.gov
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paulamathers · Posted: Mon Sep 18, 2006 4:05 pm Post subject:

thats ok because it tastes gross!