Soy milk plus tea can improve anti-cancer effect

As people's living standards continue to increase, breast cancer and prostate cancer, two types of cancer that were rarely known 20 years ago, are gradually increasing. In the past, they seemed to be just foreigners' diseases. Nowadays, how is it "localized"? Apart from the factors of exercise and pollution, the rise of these cancers is not related to the changes in diet.

Many people have heard that drinking tea can help reduce harmful blood lipids, and drinking soy milk can help prevent menopausal syndrome. If there are both tea and soymilk, what kind of benefits would it have? Some epidemiological studies have concluded that both are very similar. There may be synergies in the prevention of cancer — that is, if both are consumed, the effect of cancer prevention may be greatly increased.

After discovering the synergies between tea and soymilk, researchers are committed to exploring the source of this effect. In a recent animal study, researchers gave mice to eat soy, green tea, or green tea extract, or eat both soy and green tea. They weighed mice every week, and at the end of the experiment measured changes in various indicators of abdominal fat and blood.

The results showed that green tea can significantly reduce the number of white adipose tissue in the abdomen, while tea polyphenol extracts do not have this effect. Green tea plus soy can reduce the number of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-1, a growth factor that promotes breast cancer cell proliferation), and it can also lower leptin levels (related to body fat content). At the same time, testosterone (a factor that promotes prostate cancer) is also significantly reduced in male mice.

The results showed that green tea can significantly reduce the number of white adipose tissue in the abdomen, while tea polyphenol extracts do not have this effect. Green tea plus soy can reduce the number of insulin-like growth factor-I (IGF-1, a growth factor that promotes breast cancer cell proliferation), and it can also lower leptin levels (related to body fat content). At the same time, testosterone (a factor that promotes prostate cancer) is also significantly reduced in male mice.

From these results, it can be seen that the combination of green tea and soybean not only helps control the weight of experimental animals, but also reduces the risk of breast cancer and prostate cancer. This is consistent with the findings that drinking tea and drinking soy milk can reduce the risk of certain cancers in humans.

In fact, there are many factors that restrict the occurrence of these cancers in our ancient diet culture. For example, a large amount of vegetables, rich coarse grains and beans, as well as daily must drink tea. The so-called "chaiyang salt sauce vinegar tea", tea was once a necessity for people in the country; the whole soy milk made of soybeans was once the most common breakfast food. Once upon a time, for many young people and children, the position of tea has been replaced by sweet drinks such as Cola and Sprite, and various beans have become foods that many people rarely see once a week. In this change, some previously uncommon illnesses have slowly infiltrated our lives.

A recent survey found that many people would not care about them because they would not cook beans, especially those who do not cook at home and have no parents to cook three meals. However, making tea is very simple. Drinking soymilk is also very convenient. We have no excuse to stay away from them.

The experimental results also suggest that eating tea polyphenols capsules may not be able to replace the benefits of tea. Drinking soy milk from whole soybeans is certainly much more nutritious than soy isoflavone extracts.

In fact, the difference is more than just health benefits. Soaking in a cup of fragrant tea and holding up a cup of strong soymilk, while cherishing the nation’s healthy eating traditions, our body and mind has also benefited greatly.