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What are the health benefits of soy
Friday, May 9, 2014
What is soy?
Soybeans were one of the first foods to be grown by humans. Soy is a subtropical plant, native to southeastern Asia. This member of the pea family (which includes beans, dried peas, lentils and chick peas.) grows from one to five-feet tall and forms clusters of three to five pods, each containing two to four beans per pod.
Soy has been a dietary staple in Asian countries for at least 5,000 years, and during the Chou dynasty in China (1134-246 B.C.), fermentation techniques were discovered that allowed soy to be prepared in more easily digestible forms such as tempeh, miso, and tamari soy sauce.
Tofu was invented in 2 nd -Century China. Soy was introduced to Europe in the 1700s and to the United States in the 1800s. Large-scale soybean cultivation began in the United States during World War II. Currently, Midwestern U.S. states produce approximately half of the worlds supply of soybeans.
Soy contains protein, isoflavones, and fiber, all thought to provide health benefits. Soy is an excellent source of dietary protein, including all essential amino acids. Soy is also a source of lecithin or phospholipid. Soy isoflavones and lecithin have been studied scientifically for numerous health conditions. Isoflavones such as genistein are believed to have estrogen-like effects in the body, and as a result are sometimes called "phytoestrogens.
Soybeans were one of the first foods to be grown by humans. Soy is a subtropical plant, native to southeastern Asia. This member of the pea family (which includes beans, dried peas, lentils and chick peas.) grows from one to five-feet tall and forms clusters of three to five pods, each containing two to four beans per pod.
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Tofu was invented in 2 nd -Century China. Soy was introduced to Europe in the 1700s and to the United States in the 1800s. Large-scale soybean cultivation began in the United States during World War II. Currently, Midwestern U.S. states produce approximately half of the worlds supply of soybeans.
Soy contains protein, isoflavones, and fiber, all thought to provide health benefits. Soy is an excellent source of dietary protein, including all essential amino acids. Soy is also a source of lecithin or phospholipid. Soy isoflavones and lecithin have been studied scientifically for numerous health conditions. Isoflavones such as genistein are believed to have estrogen-like effects in the body, and as a result are sometimes called "phytoestrogens.
Nutritional value of soy
250 ml (1 cup) of cooked soybeans contains as much protein as 100 g of cooked meat, chicken or fish. The quality of soy proteins can be compared to meat proteins, while other legumes are not considered complete sources of protein.
All legumes, including soy, have no cholesterol. Even though soy is a little higher in fat than other legumes, it’s only good fat (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, including omega-3 fatty acids)!
Soy is also an excellent source of minerals including calcium, iron and zinc:
Soy protein has also been investigated for benefit in terms of other cardiovascular disease risk factors, reducing menopausal symptoms, weight loss, arthritis, brain function, and exercise performance enhancement. Dietary soy may decrease the risk of breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men, as well as other types of cancers.
In general, the supportive evidence for use of phytoestrogens as treatments for menopause, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis (weak bone mass), and cancer is limited. The use of soy formula has been investigated in the treatment of diarrhea in infants and is an effective and safe alternative to cows milk formula in most infants. Due to limited human study, there is currently not enough evidence to recommend for or against the use of soy for weight reduction.
Soy products
Soy products are made from soybeans. Common sources of soy isoflavones include roasted soybean, green soybean, soy flour, tempeh, tofu, tofu yogurt, soy hot dogs, miso, soy butter, soy nut butter, soy ice cream, soy milk, soy yogurt, tofu pups, soy cheese, bean curd, seitan, and soy noodles. Soybean flour is found in Spanish sausage products (chorizo, salchichon, mortadella, and boiled ham), doughnuts, and soup stock cubes. Grocery stores carry many different kinds of soy products. Once you become familiar with them, they can become part of your regular eating habits. Some include:
250 ml (1 cup) of cooked soybeans contains as much protein as 100 g of cooked meat, chicken or fish. The quality of soy proteins can be compared to meat proteins, while other legumes are not considered complete sources of protein.
All legumes, including soy, have no cholesterol. Even though soy is a little higher in fat than other legumes, it’s only good fat (monounsaturated and polyunsaturated fats, including omega-3 fatty acids)!
Soy is also an excellent source of minerals including calcium, iron and zinc:
- Calcium is essential for building and developing strong bones and teeth.
- Iron is used to carry oxygen to tissue and muscle cells.
- Zinc is important for growth, immunity, healing wounds and perceiving taste.
Soy protein has also been investigated for benefit in terms of other cardiovascular disease risk factors, reducing menopausal symptoms, weight loss, arthritis, brain function, and exercise performance enhancement. Dietary soy may decrease the risk of breast cancer in women and prostate cancer in men, as well as other types of cancers.
In general, the supportive evidence for use of phytoestrogens as treatments for menopause, cardiovascular disease, osteoporosis (weak bone mass), and cancer is limited. The use of soy formula has been investigated in the treatment of diarrhea in infants and is an effective and safe alternative to cows milk formula in most infants. Due to limited human study, there is currently not enough evidence to recommend for or against the use of soy for weight reduction.
Soy products
Soy products are made from soybeans. Common sources of soy isoflavones include roasted soybean, green soybean, soy flour, tempeh, tofu, tofu yogurt, soy hot dogs, miso, soy butter, soy nut butter, soy ice cream, soy milk, soy yogurt, tofu pups, soy cheese, bean curd, seitan, and soy noodles. Soybean flour is found in Spanish sausage products (chorizo, salchichon, mortadella, and boiled ham), doughnuts, and soup stock cubes. Grocery stores carry many different kinds of soy products. Once you become familiar with them, they can become part of your regular eating habits. Some include:
- Tofu – Firm or extra-firm tofu can be used in vegetable stir-fries, soups and pasta sauces. Silken tofu is good for preparing smooth sauces, dips, creamy desserts, shakes or soups.
- Roasted soybeans - Soybean can be soaked in water then roasted in oil or using dry heat. Roasted soybeans taste like peanuts and are sold plain, salted or seasoned. They are a nice alternative to peanuts and contain less fat ; 11 g per 60 ml versus 18 g for the same amount of peanuts
- Soy beverages - Soy beverages are made using ground-up soybeans. The grinding extracts a liquid that looks like milk. You can drink a soy beverage ‘as is’, or you can use it to replace cow’s milk in tea, pour it into a bowl of cereal or even use it for cooking sauces and soups. Soy beverages usually contain between 5 g to 9 g of protein per 250 ml (1 cup). Milk contains about 8.5 g of protein per 250 ml, so try to choose a soy beverage that has over 7 g of protein per 250 ml. However, soy beverages can’t really place milk unless they are fortified.
- Fortified soy beverages have just as much calcium, vitamin D, B2, A and zinc as milk and can even contain more vitamin B12 than milk. Soy beverages also provide an average of 8 to 14% of the recommended daily iron intake (1 to 2 mg of iron per cup of drink).
Children are fond of junk food Blame the parents!
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Children are fond of junk food? Blame the parents! - Are you angry if you see the children often eat junk food? If so, do not immediately blame the child. The cause is because your parenting is not quite right.
In one study, researchers from Truls Ostbye reveal the relationship between the home environment and the handling of older people with obesity, exercise and dietary habits among preschoolers. The researchers monitored data from 190 children, aged 2-5 years, with a mother who has more weight or obesity.
They collect information about childrens food intake over the past week, ranging from junk food to healthy food. For activities during the week the children using accelerometers to measure the tool of physical activity undertaken.
The mothers reported information about their childrens environment, including policies treat families with food and physical activity. As reported by MSN, from there found a significant relationship between family environment with children diasup food. Families tend to cool more often than junk food to feed families on child care and home environments.
They concluded that in order to promote healthy behavior in children, healthy home environment and the role of parents is really important. Theore, childrens health is very much dependent on how parents nurture and introduce healthy food.
The study was published online in the International Journal of Obesity on June 18, 2013.
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In one study, researchers from Truls Ostbye reveal the relationship between the home environment and the handling of older people with obesity, exercise and dietary habits among preschoolers. The researchers monitored data from 190 children, aged 2-5 years, with a mother who has more weight or obesity.
They collect information about childrens food intake over the past week, ranging from junk food to healthy food. For activities during the week the children using accelerometers to measure the tool of physical activity undertaken.
The mothers reported information about their childrens environment, including policies treat families with food and physical activity. As reported by MSN, from there found a significant relationship between family environment with children diasup food. Families tend to cool more often than junk food to feed families on child care and home environments.
They concluded that in order to promote healthy behavior in children, healthy home environment and the role of parents is really important. Theore, childrens health is very much dependent on how parents nurture and introduce healthy food.
The study was published online in the International Journal of Obesity on June 18, 2013.
Managed Care Insurer Medical Directors A Recruiting Opportunity for Provider Organizations That Are Taking Insurance Risk
Wednesday, January 22, 2014
The investigative Disease Management Care Blog went dumpster diving outside the headquarters of a large health care organization and found this document:
MEMO
To: The Health System CEO
From: The Front Line Docs
Re: Physician "Accountability" Leadership
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to meet with the medical staff last night. Since you arrived here a year ago, we physicians have been looking forward to our quarterly meetings and appreciate that you were able to make it this time. Thank you also for arranging the hospital cafeteria to supply the sandwiches. They and the boxed raisins were delicious!
"The white coats," as you er to us, are very interested in your vision of the insurer-contracting opportunities around efficiency, cost reductions, "accountability" and "shared savings." Like you, we are also concerned about unnecessary health care "waste" and "variation," and endorse your call to action, or rather inaction. The health insurers statististics that were reproduced in your presentation on the frequency of surgical procedures at our institution was very eye-opening. As a result, weve already started to let our patients know that, when a trip to the operating room cannot be justified, well do everything we can to achieve maximum cost-effectiveness with alternative evidence-based care pathways.
In light of the above, may I recommend that you strongly consider hiring a physician-leader with the skill-set necessary to spearhead these program initiatives. While the current Vice-President for Medical Affairs has many of the fine qualities weve come to expect of your hand-picked appointees, lets face it: he wouldnt know a PMPM if he personally passed one into a bedpan.
In my opinion, attributes of a such a physician leader should include:
1. A strong grasp of clinical and health economic outcomes, trending and statistical analysis.
2. A fundamental understanding of health insurance contracting.
3. A track record of interacting constructively with physicians, hospital administrators and community organizations. In particular, he or should she be adept at handling many of the hostile questions you faced last night. That way, you can "outsource" the anger management.
4. An ongoing commitment to patient care, including taking "call" with the rest of us.
I would like to point out that such physicians can be found among the Medical Directors that work in many of the nations commercial health insurers. While every commercial insurance plan has a senior-level ("Vice President") medical director, each if these executives usually has several medical directors reporting to him or her. Since these individuals work in very hierarchical organizations with little chance of advancement, many would jump at the chance to deploy their skills in a risk-bearing provider organization like ours. An enterprising head-hunter recruiter should have little trouble poaching some of these highly skilled docs who possess precisely the kind of talent we need.
Once again, thank you for your time and I look forward to working with you in the future.
Sincerely yours,
(illegible)
There was a also hand written note appended at the bottom:
By the way, Ive booked the MRI you requested and set up the appointment with the specialist. As we discussed, better safe than sorry!
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MEMO
To: The Health System CEO
From: The Front Line Docs
Re: Physician "Accountability" Leadership
Thank you for taking the time out of your busy schedule to meet with the medical staff last night. Since you arrived here a year ago, we physicians have been looking forward to our quarterly meetings and appreciate that you were able to make it this time. Thank you also for arranging the hospital cafeteria to supply the sandwiches. They and the boxed raisins were delicious!
"The white coats," as you er to us, are very interested in your vision of the insurer-contracting opportunities around efficiency, cost reductions, "accountability" and "shared savings." Like you, we are also concerned about unnecessary health care "waste" and "variation," and endorse your call to action, or rather inaction. The health insurers statististics that were reproduced in your presentation on the frequency of surgical procedures at our institution was very eye-opening. As a result, weve already started to let our patients know that, when a trip to the operating room cannot be justified, well do everything we can to achieve maximum cost-effectiveness with alternative evidence-based care pathways.
In light of the above, may I recommend that you strongly consider hiring a physician-leader with the skill-set necessary to spearhead these program initiatives. While the current Vice-President for Medical Affairs has many of the fine qualities weve come to expect of your hand-picked appointees, lets face it: he wouldnt know a PMPM if he personally passed one into a bedpan.
In my opinion, attributes of a such a physician leader should include:
1. A strong grasp of clinical and health economic outcomes, trending and statistical analysis.
2. A fundamental understanding of health insurance contracting.
3. A track record of interacting constructively with physicians, hospital administrators and community organizations. In particular, he or should she be adept at handling many of the hostile questions you faced last night. That way, you can "outsource" the anger management.
4. An ongoing commitment to patient care, including taking "call" with the rest of us.
I would like to point out that such physicians can be found among the Medical Directors that work in many of the nations commercial health insurers. While every commercial insurance plan has a senior-level ("Vice President") medical director, each if these executives usually has several medical directors reporting to him or her. Since these individuals work in very hierarchical organizations with little chance of advancement, many would jump at the chance to deploy their skills in a risk-bearing provider organization like ours. An enterprising head-hunter recruiter should have little trouble poaching some of these highly skilled docs who possess precisely the kind of talent we need.
Once again, thank you for your time and I look forward to working with you in the future.
Sincerely yours,
(illegible)
There was a also hand written note appended at the bottom:
By the way, Ive booked the MRI you requested and set up the appointment with the specialist. As we discussed, better safe than sorry!
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