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Vegetarian Times, Feb, 2003

Perimenopausal women may have a new dietary ally in their struggles against hot flashes and high blood pressure: soy nuts. That's the conclusion of a study presented to the Scientific Sessions of the American Heart Association in November 2002 by Francine Welty, MD, a preventive cardiologist with Boston's Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, a teaching affiliate of the Harvard Medical School.

In her study of 61 women, funded by the National Institutes of Health, Welty found that the women in the group who consumed a daily serving of a half cup of dry-roasted, low-salt soy nuts for eight weeks experienced reductions in their blood pressure--and suffered fewer hot flashes. Cool.