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Although the following news item sounds more like a poorly disguised press release from an obviously profit oriented manufacturer, it is very significant in many ways. Since the approach is right - and potentially extremely powerful - but since the conclusions are wrong, I've outlined the facts here, followed by the text of the press release. |
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"Tofu Alternative to Alleviate Menopausal Symptoms"
It has been well known for a long time that breast and ovarian cancer rates are dramatically lower, and that menopausal problems are practically non-existent among the populations of many other nations (see OTHER CANCER RATES in these pages).
However, and since most scholars, by far, are still unaware of the crucially vital importance of the complete natural range of the 72+ nutritional trace elements for our health and well being, these investigators have fastened upon the high consumption of tofu as the most common reason for the substantially lower cancer rates and menopausal problems among Asian women.
Unfortunately, they are wrong. While tofu is as common a daily staple in the typical Asian diet as bread is here, tofu is all but unknown among the Sinhalese - yet the breast and ovarian cancer rates, as well as any menopausal problems among Sinhalese women are over twice as much lower than that of Asian women (over 20 times lower in Sri Lanka; ten times lower in China, and 8 times lower in Japan than in the Western World). So, and obviously, it's not the tofu.
This is further substantiated by the well known fact that Asian women acquire the same high breast cancer rates as of Western women after emigrating to Western nations - despite continuing the high consumption of tofu as they have been accustomed to from birth (vis. the ubiquitous presence of tofu in all Asian restaurants and stores here).
So, and ever so obviously again, it is not the tofu. As reiterated in these pages again and again, the responsible agents for the dramatically lower breast and other cancer rates in these nations is the complete range of the 72+ trace elements in all of the food - and not just the tofu - of their native lands. This is the common factor in Sri Lanka, China and Japan - and obversely, the severe deficiency or lack of over 60 natural, and crucially vital trace elements in the chemically farmed food of all Western nations.
Further, and even though Asian women continue to consume high quantities of tofu after emigration to Western nations, the tofu made from soy beans grown by our modern Western agriculture lacks over 60 trace elements, and no amount of consumption of this western-produced tofu is - obviously - any help in preventing the high cancer rates they acquire here.
Consequently, and unless the product which has been developed as described below, has been derived from soy beans grown with the complete natural range of the 72+ trace elements - which is most unlikely - it will be worthless.
Nevertheless, investigating the nutrition of the nations with substantially lower cancer and disease rates is an extremely valuable beginning, seizing upon tofu as the active agent is a fundamental error and way off the mark.
The original article:
Tofu Alternative to Alleviate Menopausal Symptoms
A scientific effort to find a safe estrogen substitute for women reaching menopause have (sic) drawn researchers to look deeper into the populations where the frequency and severity of menopausal symptoms are lower. It revealed that Asian women experience lower incidents of menopausal symptoms and breast and ovarian cancer than their western counterparts. It also revealed that the difference can be attributed to a phytoestrogen rich diet consisting mainly of tofu.
After extensive research and thorough modern biotechnology, SeCure Pharmaceuticals of Israel announced the development of a breakthrough product Tofupill – phytoestrogen in convenient capsules. High amount of phytoestrogen is derived from the finest soy bean (sic) through a safe and natural process. Phytoestrogen has a chemical structure similar to that of the human estrogen; but unlike the synthetic estrogen, phytoestrogen does not encourage cell growth in the breast tissue and in the uterus, which is the primary cause of cancer.
Symptoms of menopause are caused by the depletion of female hormone estrogen, doctors recommend hormone replacement therapy (HRT) to alleviate the discomforts. Synthetic estrogen would be prescribed to halt the decrease of bone mass density and avoid vasomotor and psychological disturbances. However, prolonged HRT can lead to increased risk in the development of breast cancer and thromboembolic results. Because of these life-threatening consequences, about 80 percent of women in their menopausal stage dread to replace estrogen they lose as they grow older for fear of cancer.
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