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Soy
Comparable to Some Diabetes Drugs
Soy
products lowered the women's blood sugar as much as some prescription
diabetes drugs, the researchers say.
“Type
2 diabetes occurs when the body does not react to insulin normally --
called insulin resistance. Initially, the body compensates by
producing more insulin, but eventually this is not enough, and blood
sugar levels in the blood begin to rise. Being overweight is the No. 1
cause of type 2 diabetes.
“The
women were split equally into two groups. One group sprinkled their
food daily with a white powder containing 30 grams of soy protein and
132 milligrams of soy isoflavones for 12 weeks. (Isoflavones are
chemicals found in soybeans that are similar -- but not identical --
to the female hormone estrogen.)
Two weeks later, they sprinkled their food with an identical
powder that contained no soy product for another 12 weeks. The other
group used the fake powder first and the soy powder second. Neither
group knew which they were using at the time.
“The
women's weight stayed nearly constant throughout the 12 weeks. When
they ate the soy, insulin resistance improved and their insulin, blood
sugar, and cholesterol levels were better than when they ate the fake
powder. The soy products lowered the women's blood sugar as much as
some prescription diabetes drugs, the researchers say.
“Phytoestrogens
are chemicals in plants that resemble estrogen. Isoflavones are one
type. The researchers' findings are significant for women past
menopause because these women don't produce their own estrogen, and
for this reason they are more vulnerable to heart disease, stroke, and
other blood vessel diseases. People with diabetes are also generally
more vulnerable to these often fatal diseases.
“Giving
women estrogen directly raises their risk of cancer, so researchers
have been considering phytoestrogens as another option. "It
seemed like this might give an alternative to a population that
otherwise didn't have one," says lead author Vijay Jayogopal,
MRCP, of the University of Hull in England. He and his colleagues plan
further studies in an attempt to isolate the active ingredient in
soy.”
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