Health & Fitness
January, 1997
Ode to SoyIt's well known that a low-fat diet is likely to reduce the risk of heart disease. Turns out it may also impede prostate cancer, especially if the diet is low in animal fat and high in soy.Asian men, who traditionally eat soy as their main source of protein, are much less likely to develop prostate cancer than meat–eating American men. And the differences don't seem to be genetic: For Asian immigrants the cancer rates shoot up fourfold within one generation. Similarly, African American...
