Nutriton and bone growth

Nutrition and Bone Growth: Anatomy Lab Sec.3 For years soy has been looked at as a breast cancer and heart disease preventer, bone protecter, a lessoner of menopause symptoms and many others. Recent studies now show that we’ve been loading up on soy with no real clear evidence of findings that soy does all these things. Neither a group of breast-cancer suvivors nor post-menopausal women who took a soy supplement experienced any relief. To …

…is nothing to worry about as long as you stick with sources like soy milk and tofu on a regular but spaced out diet. Something else to comfort the soy lovers of the world, that in actual animal studies, soy (isoflavones) lessens bone loss. And in recent studies, research found that eating soy foods can reduce heart-disease risk without contributing to hormone cancer. Hermann, Mindy R.D. Nutrition: “Soy Backlash.” SHAPE Magazine. 2000 October pgs. 92-95.