Eating Soy Tied to Reduced Breast Cancer Death Risk. Soy foods are not detrimental to — and may even be beneficial for — women with breast cancer, according to a new study published online today in Cancer. A recent research has clarified the long misconception among OBGyn and fertility professionals.
Previous scientific study on soy has theory that soy foods are harmful to women especially for breast cancer or other cancers. Even thousands of Asians women have already consumed soy food in their daily lives. Because previous “Scientific” finding, many of us wont dare to tell patients to have soy foods.
With this research result, we can boldly tell patients that soy foods help or at least don’t worried about it.
“We now have evidence that soy foods not only prevent breast cancer but also benefit women who have breast cancer. Therefore, we can recommend women to consume soy foods because of soy’s many health benefits,” writes Omer Kucuk, MD, from the Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, in an accompanying editorial. He adds that eating soy foods has been shown to prevent other diseases, such as diabetes and hypertension.
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