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The effect of dietary soy supplementation on hot flushes.

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Soy protein isolate added daily to the diet substantially reduced the frequency of hot flushes in climacteric women.
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This article is published in Obstetrics & Gynecology.The article was published on 1998-01-01. It has received 453 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Soy protein.

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The Clinical Importance of the Metabolite Equol—A Clue to the Effectiveness of Soy and Its Isoflavones

TL;DR: It is now apparent that there are two distinct subpopulations of people and that "bacterio-typing" individuals for their ability to make equol may hold the clue to the effectiveness of soy protein diets in the treatment or prevention of hormone-dependent conditions.
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Dietary Isoflavones: Biological Effects and Relevance to Human Health

TL;DR: This review focuses on the more recent studies pertinent to this field and includes, where appropriate, the landmark and historical literature that has led to the exponential increase in interest in phytoestrogens from a clinical nutrition perspective.
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Complementary and Alternative Medicine for menopausal symptoms: A review of randomized, controlled trials

TL;DR: Review of randomized, controlled clinical trials of CAM therapies for menopausal symptoms found black cohosh to be beneficial for treating hot flashes, but these studies were small, of short duration, and far from sufficient to yield definitive conclusions.
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The use of estrogens and progestins and the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women.

TL;DR: In this paper, the effect of adding progestins to estrogen therapy on the risk of breast cancer in postmenopausal women is investigated. But, the effect on the number of newly diagnosed invasive breast cancer cases was not quantified.
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Western diet and Western diseases: some hormonal and biochemical mechanisms and associations.

TL;DR: The sex hormone pattern found in connection with a Western-type diet is prevailing in the breast cancer patients, but is only partly a result of the diet.
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Biological effects of a diet of soy protein rich in isoflavones on the menstrual cycle of premenopausal women.

TL;DR: The responses to soy protein are potentially beneficial with respect to risk factors for breast cancer and may in part explain the low incidence of Breast cancer and its correlation with a high soy intake in Japanese and Chinese women.
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The Role of Soy Products in Reducing Risk of Cancer

TL;DR: The recent workshop on The Role of Soy Products in Cancer Prevention, sponsored by the National Cancer Institute, had two objectives: to evaluate the role of soybean, food products derived from soybeans, and specific components of soybeans in the dietary prevention of cancer and to recommend research initiatives and approaches for further studies of the effect of soy intake on human cancer risk.
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