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Raise Your Soy Intake and Lower Your Blood Pressure

by Kristen King on May 30th, 2007

You don’t have to love tofu to enjoy eating soy. With soy nuts, soy bars, soy milk, soy yogurt, soy cheese, and various soy-based meat substitutes, not to mention flavorless protein powers you can add to foods you already love, you’ll never run out of fun and delicious ways to eat more soy. And that’s great news since recent research from a National Institutes of Health-funded study conducted at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston suggests that soy can help lower your blood pressure.

Women with high and regular blood pressure were assigned to two different diet groups: one that used soy as a substitute for some protein sources and one that ate a regular, non-soy-supplemented diet. At the end of the study, the soy group had noticeable positive reductions in blood pressure for women with both high and regular BP. Plus, women with high BP also experienced a lowering of their cholesterol.

Since I already love soy and know how good it is for me, I’m thrilled! If you haven’t taken the soy plunge, give it a shot. You may be surprised at how tasty good health can be.

Contents © Copyright 2007 Kristen King

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