People with diabetes are at a greatly increased risk of developing coronary heart disease (CHD). Over a 20-year period, women with diabetes were more than threefold as likely to die from CHD as were women without diabetes. Similar data exist for men. Several established risk factors for CHD appear to be favorably affected by the consumption of soy foods.
For example, soy protein modestly lowers serum levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL) by five percent, and triglycerides by seven percent, and modestly raises levels of high-density lipoprotein levels by three perscent. Each of these effects will reduce CHD risk. In fact, over the course of many years each 1 percent reduction in LDL reduces CHD risk by as much as 2-4 percent.37,38
There is also evidence that soy protein makes LDL less atherogenic and that the isoflavones in soy beans directly improve the health of the coronary arteries by improving systemic arterial compliance and vascular reactivity. More recent evidence suggests that soy protein may lower blood pressure.
Although the conflicting data in each of these areas prohibit firm conclusions, a prospective epidemiologic study of nearly 65,000 Shanghai women found that soy protein intake was associated with an 86 percent reduction in the risk of non-fatal myocardial infarction, lending support to the notion that soy exerts multiple coronary benefits.
Finally, full-fat soy foods, which are rich in the essential fatty acid linoleic acid, can help to lower serum cholesterol by displacing higher-saturated fat foods in the diet. Furthermore, the soy bean is one of the few good plant sources of the essential fatty acid, alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid that has independent coronary benefits. Certainly, on the basis of the established and possible coronary benefits, isoflavone-rich soy protein-based foods warrant a role in heart-healthy diets.
When My Doctor Explained To Me I Had Diabetes, this is how I heard him...
Your chart and blood test results show some very disturbing and frightening news...
You are morbidly obese; you have high blood pressure; you have type 2 diabetes; you have a chronic kidney disease; you’re ready for a stroke; you’re developing heart disease; and, if you live long enough… you will end up with incurable cancer.
He definitely had my attention. From that point on I knew if I did not listen to every word and do everything I was told to do (from the nurses, doctors, and the American Diabetes Association) I was a goner for sure…as in dead.
However, it took me two years after meeting with the doctor to figure out that the prescribed medicine and recommended diet I had been given was dead wrong. It really was not my fault (I know that sounds like a narcissistic statement); but when I discovered this, within a short time I cured myself.
Please check out: Diabetes 2b Free It seems that most people, me included, leave our health to chance. That is…until we become so scared and finally wake up and take control of our own destiny.
In my case, the doctor said I had full-blown diabetes, he put me in the hospital as a patient, and told me it was time to put my things in order because my life will not be pleasant for the short time I had left on this earth.
That was my wake up call. I had no other options that would keep me alive except to eat right, exercise, and lose weight, if it was't too late.
There is a lot of good and bad information out there, and the way I learned what was real and worked was by verifying what I did with blood tests.
Blood tests don’t lie and between the hospital tests and my daily tests to monitor my blood sugar or glucose count, I was able to stay on the path to wellness.
Sincerely,
Roger
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