BREAST CANCER PREVENTION: EATING PHYTO-OESTROGENS AND FIBRE INTAKE
Sunday, January 30th, 2011Eat phyto-oestrogens Phyto-oestrogens are a group of foods which contain substances that have a hormone-like action. Soya beans, for instance, contain phyto-chemicals known as isoflavones which make up about 75 per cent of the soya protein. In the human gut, bacteria convert isoflavones into compounds that can have an oestrogenic action, although they are not [...]