Thirty-Eight Studies Find Soy Products Lower Cholesterol
It seems that soy’s effect on cholesterol may actually be better researched than many of the pharmaceutical drugs on the market. As a side note, it is important to mention that soy is not ALL good. It does have a tendency to interact with other essential nutrients. It is important to not fall prey to every soy product on the market.
Increasing evidence supports the use of soy products to lower blood cholesterol, a heart-health publication edited by cardiologists reports. Heart and Health Reports cited a summary of 38 recent studies of the effect of soy on cholesterol: “This summary found that an average intake of 46 grams of soy protein per day reduced total cholesterol by an average of 9 percent, [low-density lipoprotein (LDL)] cholesterol by l3 percent, and triglycerides by 11 percent,” the publication said. Patients who had the highest cholesterol to start with had the greatest cholesterol-lowering benefit from soy, with some studies showing that soy raised high-density lipoprotein cholesterol.