http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle...ID=5660167& s
ection=news

.. . . To investigate, the researchers analyzed uterus biopsy specimens taken
from 376 postmenopausal women who were randomly selected to receive soy or
inactive "placebo" tablets for 5 years. Biopsy specimens were obtained at
the beginning of the study, after 30 months, and at the end of study period.
A total of 298 women completed the full trial.

None of the biopsy specimens showed evidence of cancer. However, nearly 4
percent of women in the soy group developed endometrial hyperplasia compared
with none of the women in the placebo group.

These findings, the authors note, "call into question the long-term safety
of (soy) phytoestrogens with regard to the endometrium."

SOURCE: Fertility and Sterility, July 2004.


Soy Linked to Thickening of Endometrial Lining

In a small group of women soy causes the same precancerous changes as
estrogen overdose.

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"Bev-Ann" wrote in message
...
I'm the OP and at the time I posted the question I didn't know what
different types of soy products there are available. I was asking because
I have started eating black soy beans 3 to 5 times a week and use a
combination of soy protein isolate and soy flour as a replacement for
wheat
flour in baking. I do eat the Atkins cold cereals on the weekends, but
those are the only frankenfoods I buy containing soy. I don't eat tofu or
use soy sauce.
It's been 4 and a half months since I started LC and using soy in these
forms. My periods have become more frequent (every 3 weeks) but my doctor
says that can happen on any diet where you lose weight quickly and the
addition of the small amount of soy such as I'm consuming is likely
coincidental. He said my periods should regulate themselves again in
another month or 2.

on Sun, 25 Jul 2004 14:31:02 +0100, Ada Ma
wrote:

I think the OP was talking about not-so-natural soy products like those
low carb
tortilla, whatever. I am tired of telling people there shouldn't be
anything
wrong about eating natural soy products. People who call soy dangerous
often
lug the original bean itself together with all these strange chemical
stuffs
derived from beans. It's like hydrogenated oil, the oil itself is
harmless but
once it's been put through strange processes it's no wonder it's going to
cause
harm to those who eat it. Same with soy, soy milk, soy sauce, fermented
soy
products.

There was a poster in here a while ago said that soy is dangerous because
she's
started to have bleeding in between periods after, according what she's
written,
been eating products produced using soya isolate in practically every
meal for a
week. Now why would someone do that is beyond me - Think of having a
diet of
pure margarine. For a week. To her credit, she did say that the natural
products are alright and the soya isolate was the one to blame. But this
point
was not spelled out until it's half way through her 3-mile long post.

Then there is this concern about the hormones like stuffs in the bean. I
wonder
how many beans one must eat to get the same dose as one can get from a
pill.

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Bev