It's Good for Diabetes Eating More Soy

Soybean products is China's traditional food. Modern study shows that soybeans in many areas of health benefits, if similar to the role of estrogen. Ju here recently by two roles.

August 2004 in English, "Journal of Nutrition" Some people think that soy benefit of diabetic nephropathy and heart disease. They studied 14 cases of 53 to 73-year-old diabetic nephropathy in type 2 diabetes male patients. A group of soy protein to the purification powder, another group of animals for meat and eggs white powder, are seasoned with vanilla, mixing in the original drinks or food to eat.

The results of eating soy protein in the urine of patients reduced by about 10 percent, indicating an improvement in diabetic nephropathy, and eat animal protein in the urine of patients has increased in volume. And eating soy protein in the blood of patients high-density lipoprotein (HDL, also known as the "good cholesterol") increased by 4%. And lower HDL is easy with cardiovascular disease.

Diabetic nephropathy at an early stage should be added protein. The researchers hope to add the original soy protein after protein in the urine of not increasing, did not expect it to reduce, and the increase in HDL in the blood also decreased with the opportunity to cardiovascular disease. So should eat soy appears to be less meat.

September 2004 in English, "Urology study" magazine in Australia experts believe that soy can prevent prostate cancer. Because the incidence of prostate cancer and androgen, and the soybeans in general that contain phytoestrogens (that is similar to the role of estrogen in plant components), may be offset by the effect of androgen. Their 29 cases of prostate cancer while preparing for surgery patients divided into three groups: Group soybeans, soybeans and flaxseed (plants are high estrogen) and wheat (low plant estrogen). Before the two groups with 50 grams of soy powder or cooked with 20 grams of flaxseed bread made of flour per day for patients taking. At the beginning of the pre-surgery and blood of prostate-specific antigen (PSA), free PSA, testosterone, sex hormone-binding globulin, free androgen index, dihydrotestosterone, and other indicators. The results showed that the total soybean meal group PSA and free / total PSA ratio than the control group improved significantly.

Previous epidemiological studies that also eat the plant estrogen men suffering from prostate cancer risk smaller. In this study, PSA prostate cancer diagnosis is an important indicator of its lower note of prostate cancer has improved. So this work and the results of epidemiological studies is the same.

Of course, these two studies is only preliminary, because the number of cases are not, still requires further expansion of research. But soy is the original Chinese traditional food, regular use, enabling non-disadvantages, as is entirely possible therapeutic feeding. Western countries now actively developing yellow soybean varieties, soybean products in China is a large country, should develop innovative, do not occur again tofu of origin to Japan to study the lactone tofu such strange things.