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A Soya a day keeps the Doctor away

Article Abstract by: diosh     

Original Author: Diosal Aljecera
  Taho and and tokwa are foods rich in soya and should be include in our everyday meal. Why? Check tis out. 
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foods mentioned above are rich in proxy estrogen that is good for us. An estrogen is a steroid. Steroids are fat-soluble ( lipid ) organic compounds that play many important functional roles in our body. They also contain isoflavones that help ease menopausal circumtances and reduce the risk of breast cancer and esteoporosis
 Isoflavones are phytoestrogens, vegetable substances that act like estrogen; they act in a wilder way. Sometimes, our own estrogen becomes low and binding to the estrogen receptor sites on cells. 
   When the body has high estrogen, isoflavones work by competing with the body''s own estrogen. It has excess our curbed that causes esteoporosis. Excess etrogen also helps avoid the higher risk of breast cancer.
   Isoflavones help us prevent heart disease. They inhibit the growth of cells that form an artey-clogging plague. Isoflavones are good for men because they reduce the danger of prostate cancer by killng cancer cells. They also fight the drug''s in man''s body.
  Now, we don''t need to worry because we can fight cancer and esteoporosis. All we have to do is eat soya foods because a soya is a day keeps the doctor away!
Published: November 03, 2007
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