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22.08.2009 |
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Soya milk reduces chance of prostate cancer
Because Seventh Day Adventists have such a healthy lifestyle they make an interesting subject for epidemiologists. In 1976 and 1977 the researchers questioned twelve thousand men on what they ate. They then monitored the largest group of the men for a period of six years until the early 1980s. This was how the researchers discovered that drinking soya milk considerably reduces the chance of prostate cancer, as the table below shows.
Two thousand men were monitored for even longer. They were also involved in a study on the health effects of environmental pollution, the Men In The Smog study. This group was studied until 1992. The table below shows that the protective effect of soya milk was even greater than in the first study.
The findings were not the first of their kind. Ten years earlier, in 1989, cancer researchers in Hawaii stumbled on the fact that soya products had a protective effect. [Cancer Res. 1989 Apr 1;49(7):1857-60.] The results of that study showed that men of Japanese origin had 65 percent less chance of developing prostate cancer if they ate tofu five times a week than men who only ate it once a week or less.
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