As the U.S. Food and Drug Administration reinforces its view that adults who consume 25 grams of soy protein a day can lower their risk of heart disease, publications such as Good Housekeeping magazine are reporting:
“You know that eating soy is good for you — it reduces your cholesterol and risk of heart disease.”
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So the Good Housekeeping Institute’s nutrition laboratory conducted a “taste test” with the magazine’s staff and in the September issue recommends seven favorite soy foods:
- Meatless or chicken-free nuggets.
- Soyburgers.
- Black soybeans — “good tossed in salad or chili.”
- Chocolate soy milk.
- Cold soy cereal.
- Soy nuts — “staffers went nuts over” three different brands.
- Green soybeans — described as “fun to eat.”
Meanwhile, the FDA rebutted comments by two scientists published in the The Observer in London that questioned soy effects including soy milk for infants. Soy has overriding positive effects that justify promoting its benefits, an FDA spokesman said, and the agency considered the scientists’ views before determining in October l999 to allow food manufacturers to label their products with statements that soy consumption can help reduce risk of heart disease.
Michael Orso, a spokesman for the United Soybean Board, told the news agency Reuters that “the overwhelming body of published peer-reviewed scientific evidence shows soy has numerous health benefits.”
In other recent comments on soy foods, syndicated health columnist Jean Carper reported that “eating soy also may fight prostate cancer.” She cited a study tracking l2,395 Seventh-Day Adventist men finding that those men who drank soy milk more than once a day were 70 percent less likely to get prostate cancer.
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By GlobalDataColumnist Carper also reported on a new study at Wake Forest University in North Carolina that a daily soy beverage containing 37 milligrams of isoflavones, a key soy nutrient, lowered high cholesterol by eight percent, and a daily drink with 62 milligrams of isoflavones decreased cholesterol by nine percent.
“The higher your cholesterol, the greater the impact,” Carper wrote.
