Posts Tagged ‘soy protein’
Saturday, July 25th, 2009
- Turn on the television and you’re likely to see an advertisement of the next cholesterol management pill or some other health related medication. A lot of those medications are too expensive for most people to afford and the side effects are often times more severe than the problem they are battling.
- A healthy and inexpensive alternative to battling high cholesterol and reducing the risk of heart diseases is soy protein. Soy protein has been proven to dramatically improve heart health and cholesterol. In 1999 soy’s health claims were substantiated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
- The soybean is a type of legume originating from East Asia. It has been used for cooking and medicinal purposes for over five thousand years in various Asian countries. Soybeans are an important protein source for many countries throughout the world that have a lack of animal protein sources at their discretion.
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Tags: cholesterol management, risk of heart deseases, soy protein
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