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Importance of Topic to Practice
More than 10,000 peer-reviewed journal articles have been published in the last 20 years since the U.S. National Cancer Institute first announced a research program aimed at establishing the possible chemo-preventive properties of isoflavones (1).
Alongside the health-promoting effects of soy, the potential harm from soy consumption in populations across the lifecycle has also been investigated (2,3). The biological effects of isoflavones first came