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The Incredible Benefits of Soy

By: Healthy Herbal Guy

There are very few foods that are permitted by the US Food and Drug Administration to include health claims on the label. However, soy is one of those. You may have even read one of the claims recently stating that diets low in saturated fat and cholesterol that include 25 grams of soy protein daily can reduce the risk of heart disease. Soy has many beneficial properties, a few of which are listed below.

Soy helps a variety of ailments from cardiovascular disease to prostate cancer to menopause symptoms. Even with these benefits many people simply don't eat soy because they are not familiar with it. The soybean is a legume and is made into a variety of foods such as soy milk, tofu, miso, and tempeh.

Soy improves cardiovascular disease by lowering LDL (bad) cholesterol up to 4% to 5%.Even greater decreases of LDL occur when you substitute soy for less heart healthy foods like red meat and other saturated fats. There are current theories that suggest soy has such a beneficial effect because it increases the activity of receptors that "trap" LDL.

Soy is replete with isoflavones. These chemicals are very similar to estrogen and bear some of the same effects, but not as strongly as estrogen. Also known as phytoestrogens, isoflavones help arteries relax and expand which helps blood circulation and decreases blood pressure. A few studies have revealed decreases up to fifteen points. Additional blood flow to the body and its organs is always a beneficial thing.

Men will be happy to know the learn that studies have shown that cancer patients who consumed soy isoflavones for six months showed a leveling off of prostate-specific antigen, a key indicator in prostate cancer. Additionally, consuming isoflavones is thought to inhibit enzymes that fuel and feed tumor growth.

Men aren't the only ones to benefit from consuming soy. Menopausal women also get great benefits from soy because the phytoestrogens in soy are metabolized in the body into equol. Women who have had more than 5 hot flashes each day have found that eating soy can help reduce hot flash frequency up to 40%. Soy has also proven helpful in reducing vaginal dryness in some menopausal women.

Lastly soy has been shown to aid those with kidney disease. Glomerular filtration rate is a measure of kidney stress that is decreased when soy proteins are used in place of animal proteins. This decrease in kidney stress may help retard kidney damage.

With ithe benefits it offers men and women, and its ability to provide a great source of high protein, low fat calories, soy will likely continue to be a popular, and healthy choice for dieters everywhere. So start using soy based foods into your diet today, and grab all the benefits soy has to offer.

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