Soy Foods and Health

Soy is rich in quality protein and human 8 kinds of essential amino acids, there are nutritionists call the meat plant is cheap and good quality protein source, soy is still a good health food, soy is rich in unsaturated fatty acids, some of which are essential fatty acids the body can not be synthesized, which is the membrane component of human growth, development and metabolism for the purpose and effect of lowering cholesterol.

Soy contains soy lecithin, can protect blood vessels, so that deposition of cholesterol reduction, the promotion of fat metabolism, prevent fatty liver. Soybeans with soybean saponin, there are anti-aging effects. Soy contains substances called genistein, an antioxidant, for breast cancer, prostate cancer, there is blocking role, Japan, China, Europe and the United States than breast cancer in women, and eat soybean products related.

 Japanese men genistein levels in urine than in Europe and the United States in areas of high incidence of prostate cancer 30 times higher, which is to eat things related to soybeans. Soy also contains oligosaccharides, beneficial to patients with diabetes.