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"Additional 5-6 ounces tofu 0 V2 cup edamame (boiled soybeans)—just the beans, out of the pod 2/'i cup edamame (boiled soybeans)—measured in the pod 0 V2-2/3 cup cup plain, cooked beans—black, lentils, etc. «' V2 cup SuperFoodsRx Cooked Lentils (recipe page 219) One 4-6 ounce yogurt (150 calories max, no corn syrup or artificial sweeteners) ft See also bean-based Spreads and Dips in the "2 for Is" on page 141. Grains . . ." - Wendy Bazilian, DRPH, MA, RD, Steven Pratt, MD, Kathy Matthews, Superfoods Rx Diet: Lose Weight with the Power of SuperNutrients (Get the book.)

"Phytoestrogens can be found in such plants as fennel, soybeans, celery, parsley, cabbage, broccoli, brussels sprouts, beets, whole grains, apples and alfalfa. In fact, one cup of soybeans is the equivalent of one Premarin tablet, although you do not have to eat a cup of soybeans a day. Just three ounces of soybeans a day in your diet can give you the natural estrogen you need to balance your system. Products rich in soybeans are tofu, tempeh and soybean drinks, such as soy milk." - American Medical Publishing, Proven Health Tips Encyclopedia (Get the book.)

"The best sources of choline are lecithin (essentially a dietary source of PC that comes from egg yolks and soybeans; it can be taken as a supplement), eggs, sardines, soybeans, nuts, and peanuts. The protein receptors for all your brain neurotransmitters sit inside the fatty cell membrane.When the membrane is rigid, the receptors can't work and your brain doesn't function well. A fluid membrane improves the structure and function of protein receptors for neurotransmitters like serotonin (depression), dopamine (attention), acetylcholine (memory)." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Some of the strongest phytoestrogen-containing foods are soy products, including soybeans, soy milk, tofu, tempeh, textured vegetable protein, roasted soybeans, soy granules, miso, and edamame. Although their chemical structure resembles estrogen, it is much less powerful than human estrogen; in fact, its effectiveness is just a thousandth of human estrogen's effectiveness. Unlike lignans, which attach to estrogen and help to reduce estrogen overload through excretion, soy products actually have the potential to compound the problem." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"The best sources of choline are lecithin (essentially a dietary source of PC that comes from egg yolks and soybeans; it can be taken as a supplement), eggs, sardines, soybeans, nuts, and peanuts. The protein receptors for all your brain neurotransmitters sit inside the fatty cell membrane.When the membrane is rigid, the receptors can't work and your brain doesn't function well. A fluid membrane improves the structure and function of protein receptors for neurotransmitters like serotonin (depression), dopamine (attention), acetylcholine (memory)." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Soy foods are rich in copper and magnesium and are also rich in B vitamins, particularly niacin, pyridoxine, and folacin. soybeans are rich in phytochemicals known as isoflavones which may help prevent certain types of cancer, fight heart disease, and improve bone density. Home Remedies The Chinese have used fermented soybean curds to treat skin infections for over 3,000 years. Soy has also been used to alleviate hot flashes. Throw Me a Lifesaver!" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.) "Why Should I Eat soybeans? Soy is the richest source of protein of any legume. In whole bean form, soy is very rich in fiber but many processed soy foods are not. Soy can be an excellent source of calcium, ranging anywhere between 80 and 750 mg per serving, depending on the type of soy food. Although soy foods are high in both oxalates and phytate, two compounds that can inhibit calcium absorption, the calcium from soy foods is very well absorbed. Fermented soy foods, like tempeh and miso, are a good source of iron." - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"In contrast, a recent randomized controlled trial in hypercholesterolemic patients found varying diets containing soybeans, soy flour, or soy milk (15% of energy as protein?.5% of energy as experimental protein; 37.5 g/day) had no effect on blood pressure, vascular endothelial function, or CRP concentrations [184]. Previous ?IBP ISO (diet) ? IBP ISO (suppl) ?IBP and ISO (diet) O IBP and ISO (suppl) ? Isoflavone (diet) A Isoflavone (suppl) Larger-LDL?" - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The Bowman-Birk inhibitor from soybeans as an anticarcinogenic agent. Am. J. Clin. Nutr. 68, 1406S-1412S. 239. Wyatt, C. J., Carballido, S. P., and Mendez, R. O. (1998). Alpha- and gamma-tocopherol content of selected foods in the Mexican diet: Effect of cooking losses. J. Agric. Food Chem. 46, 4657-4661. 240. Heilbrun, L. K, Nomura, A., and Stemmermann, G. N. (1986). Black tea consumption and cancer risk: A prospective study. Br. J. Cancer 54, 677-683. 241. Jian, L., Xie, L. P., Lee, A. H., and Binns, C. W. (2004)." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.) "The isoflavones, daid-zein and genistein, are highly concentrated in soybeans and soy products [10, 11]. Urinary isoflavone excretion is associated strongly and directly with soy protein intake under controlled dietary conditions [12]. In intervention studies of soy foods or isoflavone supplementation, urinary isoflavonoid excretion, and serum or plasma isoflavone concentrations are useful markers of study compliance [13-14]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"IP^ with Inositol Identified in 1855, inositol hexaphosphate (IPg) is a naturally occurring compound found in grains and soybeans, and is the chief storage form of phosphorous for germinating seeds. In nature, IP^ and its relatives are powerful antioxidants that protect and preserve seeds so that they may remain viable for a long time. A seed that is hundreds of years old and that still germinates does so because of the protective powers of IPg." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "While IPg can be found in foods such as soybeans, green tea, and cereals, deriving the therapeutic benefits delivered by the supplement would require consuming pounds of IPg-rich foods daily. The IPg in supplement form is made from the bran portion of brown rice and has been combined with inositol, a member of the B vitamin family, in a patented cancer-protective complex called Cell Forte with IPg?or Cellular Forte with IPg ?that possesses synergistic effects." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.) "Flaxseed, in particular, contains 100 to 800 times more plant lignans than its closest competitors, wheat bran, rye, buckwheat, millet, soybeans, and oats. Once consumed, lignans found in flaxseed are converted by bacterial action in the colon to mammalian lignans (enterolactone and enterodiol). They are then absorbed through the intestinal mucous membrane into the bloodstream. The mammalian lignans bind with estrogen receptors on cells throughout the body, reducing the effect of women's estrogen hormones by blocking the receptors the hormones activate." - Freedom Press, Natural Cancer Cures: The Definitive Guide to Using Dietary Supplements to Fight and Prevent Cancer (Get the book.)

"Because estrogens are associated with lower risk of prostate cancer and are used in prostate cancer therapy, there is a good rationale for the hypothesis that phytoestrogen intake can protect against prostate cancer. soybeans and many products made from soy, such as tofu, are rich in a class of phytoestrogens known as isoflavones (other classes of phytoestrogens include the coumestans and lignans). The main isoflavones found in soy include genistein, daidzein, and glycitein [227, 228]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"Beneficial bacteria known as Bacillus natto are added to boiled soybeans, producing a fermented food rich in this healing, health-giving enzyme. Note well: You don't get this enzyme from soy chips, soy milk, or any other commercial soy product. Unfermented soy products such as soy milk or even tofu don't have a drop of nattokinase. If eating natto is out of the question for you, nattokinase is now beginning to be offered as a supplement by high-end supplement companies that deal mainly with health professionals. And for good reason: It's a natural clot buster." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Natural Prescription for Magnesium Food sources: Dark green leafy vegetables, nuts (almonds, cashews), and certain fish (halibut) are my personal favorites, but a wide variety of fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and even soybeans are all good sources. Best way to take it: 400-800 mg day as a supplement (either alone or as part of a bone formula). Try an Epsom salts bath. It's relaxing, and you absorb magnesium through the skin. Magnesium is the fourth most abundant mineral in the body and is absolutely essential to good health. There's almost nothing I can think of that it isn't good for." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Foods that have more arginine than lysine include gelatin, chocolate, carob, coconut, oats, whole wheat and white flour, peanuts, soybeans, and wheat germ. Best to stay away if you're having—or expecting—an outbreak. And if you want the therapeutic benefits of lysine for the prevention or control of herpes, it's best to take supplements. You're just not going to get nearly enough from food alone. Everyday Prevention Like many conditions discussed in this book, herpes has a very intimate relationship with stress. Stress makes it worse. A lot worse." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"These include walnuts, cooked soybeans (edamame), strawberries, and anything with raw tofu in it. B vitamins have a similar effect, while also boosting energy. These vitamins are found in abundance in citrus fruits like oranges and grapefruit. Offer Your Help; Participate Children recovering from their ADD/ADHD symptoms will still be struggling with their homework, so it's key to let them know that they don't have to struggle alone. Check in with them once in a while to monitor their progress (without hovering). Offer help on any difficult problems." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Beta-sitosterol is a plant sterol found in almost all plants, especially in rice bran, wheat germ, corn oils, and soybeans. In clinical research it's been shown to help lower blood cholesterol, but more to the point, it's also been shown to reduce the symptoms of BPH. Four double-blind, placebo-controlled studies including 519 men and lasting from 4 to 26 weeks concluded that beta-sitosterol significantly improved urological symptoms and flow measures." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In food, this technology has primarily been adopted by large-scale monoculture growers of corn, soybeans and grain crops. It has also been used with sweet fruits, but on a limited scale. Ice-Minus and Frost Ban strawberries were grown with the addition of genetically modified bacteria called "frost-inhibitors," but they never passed the developmental phase. The Flavr-savr tomato, which contained cold-resistant fish genes (arctic flounder, to be precise), failed after a few years on the market." - Adam Leith Gollne, The Fruit Hunters: A Story of Nature, Adventure, Commerce and Obsession (Get the book.)

"Flaxseed with soybeans fights breast cancer. Previous research has implicated soy as actually having tumor-promoting effects in late-stage breast cancer, but in recent lab studies, flaxseed has been shown to weaken this effect." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"But some calories got cheaper than others: Since 1980, the price of sweeteners and added fats (most of them derived, respectively, from subsidized corn and subsidized soybeans) dropped 20 percent, while the price of fresh fruits and vegetables increased by 40 percent. It is the cheaper and less healthful of these two kinds of calories on which Americans have been gorging." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"These include tangerine, papaya, Mediterranean olives, olive oil, wine, grape seeds, potato juice, white and green tea, soy milk, fermented soybeans and rice bran. Less common ingredients include high quality, expensive, natural, certified organic essential oils, based on non-allergenic ingredients such as clove, lavender, vanilla and ylang-ylang (note that non-allergenic does not mean non-toxic or non-irritating). Rice, rice bran, and the lees left over from brewing are also becoming an important source for organic cosmetics in Japan." - Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.)

"Create meals high in low-glycemic legumes such as lentils, chickpeas, and soybeans (try edamame,Japanese soybeans in a pod, quickly steamed with a little salt, as a snack).These foods slow the release of sugars into the bloodstream, helping to prevent excess insulin release, which leads to hyperinsulinemia and its related health concerns, including poor heart health, obesity, high blood pressure, high LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and low HDL ("good") cholesterol. • ?Eat a cornucopia of fresh fruits and vegetables teeming with phytonutrients—carotenoids, flavonoids, and polyphenols?" - Mark Hyman, Ultra-Metabolism: The Simple Plan for Automatic Weight Loss (Get the book.)

"By boiling crushed soybeans in water to form a kind of milk and then precipitating the liquid by adding gypsum (calcium sulfate), cooks were able to form the soy into curds of highly digestible protein: tofu. So how are these traditional methods of "food processing" different from newer kinds of food science? Only in that the traditional methods have stood the test of time, keeping people well nourished and healthy generation after generation. One of the hallmarks of a traditional diet is its essential conservatism." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"Eat Alternative Sources of Calcium Foods that contain calcium are almonds, apricots, asparagus, blackstrap molasses, bok choi, broccoli, cabbage, clams, collard greens, dandelion greens, dried figs, filberts, kale, kelp, calcium fortified orange juice, oats, okra, prunes, rhubarb, sardines, salmon with the bones, spinach, tofu, dark green leafy vegetables, soybeans, sesame seeds, parsley, turnip greens, white beans, rainbow trout, sweet potatoes, soya milk, rice milk and almond milk." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"Traditional Herbs for Semi-Acute and Acute Blood Loss • Cinnamon* (Cinnamomum verum) • Life root (Senecio aureus) • Canadian fleabane* (Erigeron canadensis) • Greater periwinkle (Vinca major) • Shepherd's purse (Capsella bursa-pastoris) • Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) • Savin (Sabina officinalis) Bio-Identical Hormones Bio-identical hormones are made in a manufacturing laboratory and are derived from a compound found in either Mexican wild yam root or soybeans." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

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