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"SOY FOODS AND MENOPAUSE"
All right, back to foods.
Does soy consumption help ameliorate symptoms of menopause?
Now as with nearly everything in the field of nutrition, the evidence is mixed,
so the question is always, “What does the balance of evidence show?”
To bean or not to bean?
Here’s what the science shows.
There’s been a dozen studies on soy consumption and hot flashes,
and one showed an increase in hot flashes – the one at the bottom.
Three didn’t show soy did much of anything,
but the remaining eight studies showed a significant reduction in hot flashes.
You can imagine what the headlines were like after the publication of that last study; you know, “Soy doesn’t work.”
But you have to take the totality of evidence, and overall soy really does seem to help.