Seaweed and soy foods are consumed daily in Japan, where breast cancer rates for postmenopausal women are significantly lower than in the West. Likely mechanisms include differences in diet, especially soy consumption, and estrogen metabolism. Fifteen healthy postmenopausal women participated in this double-blind trial of seaweed supplementation with soy challenge. Participants were randomized ...

• Allergy tests are often positive to related foods even though many or all of the foods would be tolerated. This is because many foods have similar proteins that the immune system may recognize, but the recognized proteins, or the nature of the immune response, are not sufficient to cause a reaction. For instance, more than 50% of children with a peanut allergy test positive to other beans (pe...

Human food production is the largest cause of global environmental changes. Environmental benefits could be achieved by replacing diets with a high amount animal-sourced foods more plant-based foods, due to their smaller impacts. The objective this study was assess impacts three most common milk alternatives (PBMAs)—oat, soy, and almond drink—in comparison conventional organic cow milk. Life cy...

The cover image is based on the Review Article A systematic review flavor of soy-based fermented foods: Core fermentation microbiome, multisensory substances, key enzymes, and metabolic pathways by Feiyu An et al., https://doi.org/10.1111/1541-4337.13162.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Data on associations between soy food intake after cancer diagnosis with breast cancer survival are conflicting, so we conducted this meta-analysis for more accurate evaluation. METHODS Comprehensive searches were conducted to find cohort studies of the relationship between soy food intake after cancer diagnosis and breast cancer survival. Data were analyzed with com...

INTRODUCTION Although the initiation of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) is accompanied by an attenuation of viral load, metabolic disorders characterized by hyperglycemia, dyslipidemia, and lipodystrophy are often observed in patients under this treatment. Certain foods, such as oat bran, soy protein, and flaxseed, have been shown to improve a patient's lipid profile despite possib...

BACKGROUND Soy foods contain several components (isoflavones and amino acids) that potentially affect bone. Few long-term, large clinical trials of soy as a means of improving bone mineral density (BMD) in late postmenopausal women have been conducted. OBJECTIVE Our goal was to evaluate the long-term effect of dietary soy protein and/or soy isoflavone consumption on skeletal health in late po...

Obesity is now present worldwide, including China, India and developing countries. It now seems no longer acceptable to argue that obesity can simply be explained in terms of caloric consumption only using simple concept of energy in and energy out. There may be specific causes of altered metabolism that produce nutritional imbalances. Individual variation in response to food intake may also be...

Only 30% to 50% of people produce the daidzein-metabolite equol after eating soy. We conducted a cross-sectional study of the associations between equol status, intake of soy foods, and mammographic density in a sample of postmenopausal women recruited at a radiology clinic near Buffalo, New York. Participants were 48 to 82 years old, had no history of cancer or breast reduction/augmentation, a...

BACKGROUND Although soy protein and its isoflavones have been reported to reduce the risk of osteoporosis in peri- and post-menopausal women, most of these studies are of short duration (i.e. six months). The objective of this study was to examine if one year consumption of soy-containing foods (providing 25 g protein and 60 mg isoflavones) exerts beneficial effects on bone in postmenopausal wo...