Research in monkey advises that a ...

Research in monkey advises that a diet high in the natural plant estrogen set in soy does not increase the risk of breast or uterine cancer in postmenopausal women

"This is convincing evidence that at dietary evens the estrogens found in soy do not stimulate lonely dwelling growth and other markers for cancer risk," said Charles E forest DVM, file study's lead researcher, from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center "The findings should be especially interesting to women at high risk for breast cancer who take soy products"

The research is reported in the July 2004 issue of The Journal of Clinical Endocrinology & Metabolism.

thicket said there has been a great quantity [i]or[/i] amount of debate about whether high flats of dietary soy are safe for postmenopausal women Soy effects are sold as a natural alternative to traditional hormone therapy.

The in the greatest degree common form of hormone therapy, estrogen plus a progestin, has been shown to increase the risk of breast cancer.

The experiment was mannersed over 3 years, with postmenopausal monkey consuming the human equivalent of 129 mg of soy isoflavones by day, which is more than mostly people would get in a soy-rich diet.

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