Health Tip

Caffeinated drinks act as diuretics pushing fluids out of your body. So, you need to drink a glass of water for each caffeinated beverage you drink just to make up for the loss. However, you really want to do more than that and to provide the body with 8 glasses of water a day which doesn't include what you need if you consume caffeine.

Give your kidneys a rest. Love your kidneys. Remember, your body is 70% water so be sure to replenish the water that's passed each day. This is vital to your healthy diet and surely in fighting disease.

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Marlon Wade
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Heart Disease

Although women of childbearing age have lower heart disease rates than men, those rates increase after menopause. Soyfoods may play a role in helping to reduce risk of heart disease. Besides being low in saturated fat and cholesterol-free, the protein in soyfoods has been shown to reduce cholesterol levels. A dose response relationship exists; higher amounts of soy protein increase the effects.(16) Soy protein is also primarily effective in patients with high cholesterol levels (>240 mg.dl).(16) Although 25 grams of soy protein has been found to produce decreases in cholesterol levels, as much as 40 grams of soy protein - or the amount in three to four servings of soyfoods - is needed to produce larger effects.(17)

Soy may also offer protection because of its antioxidant activity. A recent human study found that soy inhibited LDL-cholesterol oxidation.(1) Decreased cholesterol oxidation may be extremely important for decreasing heart disease risk. Finally, the isoflavone genistein inhibits platelet aggregation and smooth muscle cell proliferation in vitro.(1,2) Thus, soy intake may reduce clot formation and plaque development.

Eat well and be well!

References

1. Kanazawa T, Osanai T, Zhang X-S, et al. J Nutr 125 (suppl), 639S-646S, 1995.

2. Murphy, CT Kellie S. Westwick J. Eur J Biochem, 1993, 216, 639-651.

3. Hollenberg MD. TIPS, 1994, 15, 108-114.

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How to stop heart disease

You may have heard of the Dutch study, called the Leiden Intervention Trial, in which 35 men and 4 women with at least one constricted coronary artery of 50 percent or more due to heart disease, which showed clearly that heart disease can be stopped for some people through a low-cholesterol diet.

How’d they do that, you ask. By eating a vegetarian diet for two years with less than 100 milligrams of cholesterol a day and by eating double the amount of polyunsaturated fat than saturated fat. For 46 percent of the study participants at the end, arterial disease had not progressed at all. For the 46 percent which saw a halt in the progression of coronary disease, lower cholesterol and high-density lipoprotein (HDL) levels was the key. The participants with higher cholesterol/HDLs did not see a stop in the progression of their heart disease.

The next time you’re tempted to buy or consume some genetically modified food, remember this if you are 20 years of age or higher.

Eat well and be well!

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Marlon Wade
Staff Writer
Café Soy, LLC
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http://www.cafesoy.com
"We make good taste a healthy habit."

Soy and your healthy heart

As part of national Heart-Health Month, the fact sheet by Dr. Mark Messina about soy and heart health illustrates the relationship of soyfoods to having a healthy heart. Dr. Messina touches upon the areas of coronary heart disease, cholesterol levels including effects on serum lipids, HDLC and triglycerides, blood pressure, and essential fatty acids.

By the way, as you already know, Frankenfoods will not provide these benefits but they will promote the various chronic diseases that the use of soyfoods are intended to prevent. Prevention is always better than a cure and you don't need a medical degree to know that.

Eat well and be well!
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Marlon Wade
Staff Writer
Café Soy, LLC
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http://www.cafesoy.com
"We make good taste a healthy habit."

February is Heart Health Month

You might want to know the basis for a lot of what we say about soy on this blog so here it is as follows:

Soy protein provides numerous health benefits. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) officially recognized the cholesterol-lowering effects of soy protein in 1999, and the American Heart Association followed suit one year later. The FDA-approved health claim states that 25 grams of soy protein per day may reduce the risk of heart disease.

Recent research suggests that soy may lower risk of prostate, colon and breast cancers as well as osteoporosis and other bone health concerns, and emerging research also indicates that soy protein may reduce high blood pressure and some symptoms of menopause. Additionally, two studies presented at a symposium on soy and breast cancer at the American Dietetic Association's annual meeting in October 2002 point to the teenage years as an especially important time to consume soy in order to ward off breast cancer.

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Marlon Wade
Staff Writer
Café Soy, LLC
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http://www.cafesoy.com
"We make good taste a healthy habit."

What our kids and grandchildren eat at school

Okay, children don't often like being left out but this time I think they would like it if they were not included among the swath of people affected by Frankenfoods. Now, we have a view at the unsanitary conditions their frankenfoods are prepared for their consumption in our school systems. Click here to watch the video clip and then have a conversation with your children and/or grandchildren about it, too.

Eat well and be well!
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Marlon Wade
Staff Writer
Café Soy, LLC
info@cafesoy.com
http://www.cafesoy.com
"We make good taste a healthy habit."

Soy health benefits

Soybeans and soyfoods are healthy. While soybeans are part of a smart diet because they're high in protein, new research points to other significant benefits from soy - most importantly, its apparent role in reducing the risk of certain chronic diseases.

Soy and Heart Disease

Soy in a Risk-Reducing Diet

Heart disease is the leading cause of death in United States, killing more than 100 people every hour. But soyfoods may help reduce the risk of heart disease. Soyfoods are not only low in saturated fat and free of cholesterol, but contain proteins which have been shown to directly lower blood cholesterol, potentially reducing the risk of heart disease.

In addition, only soyfoods are rich in a group of phytochemical compounds called isoflavones which may work to reduce the risk of heart disease. Isoflavones are found in significant amounts only in soybeans and soyfoods, such as tofu, soymilk, tempeh and textured soy protein.

Soy and Cholesterol Reduction

High blood cholesterol levels are a primary contributor to heart disease. Approximately 40 million Americans have blood cholesterol levels that are too high. But many studies have shown that among such people, soy protein can reduce high blood cholesterol levels by 10 to 15% – enough to cut the chances of a heart attack by up to 30%.

As little as 25 grams of soy protein per day may be enough to lower cholesterol levels, and greater amounts – 25 to 50 grams per day – are likely to lead to greater cholesterol decreases. This amount of soy protein can be found in one cup of cooked soybeans, one cup of tempeh or one cup of roasted soy nuts.

Inhibiting Cholesterol Oxidation

Soy protein inhibits cholesterol oxidation. Oxidized cholesterol is cholesterol that has undergone structural changes because of exposure to oxygen. Only oxidized cholesterol can damage arteries. In test tubes, a compound in soybeans called genistein has been found to inhibit the growth of cells that form artery-clogging plaque.

For more information on heart disease, click here to go to the American Heart Association Internet site.

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