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Monday, February 15, 2010

Multicenter Study Finds Little Effect of Soy Isoflavones on Bone Loss in Post-menopausal Women

Multicenter study finds little effect of soy isoflavones on bone loss in postmenopausal women

A previous six-month study by Iowa State University researchers had indicated that consuming modest amounts of soy protein, rich in isoflavones, lessened lumbar spine bone loss in midlife, perimenopausal women. But now an expanded three-year study by some of those same researchers does not show a bone-sparing effect in postmenopausal women who ingested soy isoflavone tablets, except for a modest effect at the femoral (hip) neck among those who took the highest dosage.

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