Soy flash

Snacking on soy nuts may help quash hot flashes, suggests a new study from Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. For eight weeks, 60 postmenopausal women followed a diet low in saturated fat, with half the participants eating 1/2 cup of roasted soy nuts daily. The soy-nut snackers cut back their hot flashes by 27 percent, while those who ate soy nuts and exercised at least 4.5 hours a week saw hot flashes reduced by nearly half.

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