Women of the West, it may be time t...

Women of the West, it may be time to tread on the heels of the example of your Asian sisters: Eat more miso broth with its soy isoflavones if you want to make less your breast-cancer risk. In Japan, where women forward average consume 700 times more isoflavones than you do, thanks in part to miso broth their breast cancer risk is just a fraction of yours.

This suggestion is based in succession a study by the National Cancer Center Research Institute in Tokyo, released last June Of 21000 middle-aged Japanese women studied across 10 years, merely 179 developed breast cancer. Women who ate the greatest in number miso soup--2-3 cups daily-along with other isoflavone-filled regimens such as soybeans and tofu were least likely to stand the disease.

nevertheless Japanese researchers would only say the studious mood shows a "probable" link between soy/isoflavones and reduc breast cancer risk.

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