Bruce Trock
Bruce Trock
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These questionnaires don't capture everything. Reported intake is not a good estimate of real intake.
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But there are no studies that have followed women long enough to solidify this.
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Given the complicated interplay of events and factors that go into developing cancer, we shouldn't be surprised that one food doesn't give us a clear signal. We shouldn't expect it to be so simple.
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At the time most of these studies were done, few Western women were eating tofu, but many were getting soy without noticing it.
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If women would like to hedge on the side that it may be protective, they should eat soy foods like soy milk, soy nuts and tofu.
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At this point, women should not be taking high-dose soy supplements, especially those who are breast cancer survivors and women at increased risk for the disease. We don't have long-term data on the effects of these supplements, and there is some evidence that they could be harmful.
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When you put it all together, we came up with evidence of a small protective effect but a lot of reasons to be a little wary of how accurate that effect may be.