For example, soyfoods have been posited to reduce the risk of osteoporosis ( 1 ) and coronary heart disease ( 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ). Notable in this regard, in 1999, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved a health claim for soy protein and coronary heart disease ...
Soy contains plant-based estrogens which don't increase breast cancer risk "For years, I've been trying to dispel the myth about soy and breast cancer. And it seems that the message still isn't out because almost every day, every patient I see is worried about consumingsoy products," say...
4. Myth: If you have or had breast cancer, avoid all soy foods. Just as eating a moderate amount of whole soy doesn’t make you more likely to get breast cancer, it also doesn’t seem to raise your risk for recurrence. “Still, I’d recommend that breast cancer patients avoid soy ...
BACKGROUND: Although isoflavones, such as those found in soy, have been shown to inhibit breast cancer in laboratory studies, associations between consumption of isoflavone-containing foods and breast cancer risk have been inconsistent in epidemiologic studies. We evaluated the relationship between isoflav...
of 73,223 Chinese women over more than seven years found: "Women who consumed a high amount of soy foods consistently during adolescence and adulthood had a substantially reduced risk of breast cancer. No significant association with soy food consumption was found for postmenopausal breast cancer."...
In contrast, soy intake was unrelated to breast cancer risk in studies conducted in the 11 low-soy-consuming Western populations whose average highest and lowest soy isoflavone intake levels were around 0.8 and 0.15mg per day, respectively. Thus, the evidence to date, based largely on case–...
High intake of soy foods has been proposed to contribute to the low breast cancer risk in Asian countries. However, results of epidemiologic studies of this association are highly variable, and experimental data suggest that soy constituents can be estrogenic and potentially risk enhancing. Thus, ri...
ContextSoy foods are rich in isoflavones, a major group of phytoestrogens that have been hypothesized to reduce the risk of breast cancer. However, the
While soy supplements were once marketed as slowing breast cancer, they can actually help breast cancer grow, according to a recent study from Northwestern University. For the study, 98 women with high risks of breast cancer took soy supplements or placebos over a six-month period. Researchers ...
Breast cancer (BC) is the most common cancer in women worldwide, resulting in a high mortality rate and high costs for public coffers. Increasing evidence has shown that lifestyle factors, including diet, may modify the risk for BC. For example, dietary consumption of soy and its association...