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Plant
Estrogens Low in Older Women's Diets
(US Dept of Agriculture, Agricultural
Research Service, 9/28/01)
Scientists from 4 institutions -- Jean Mayer USDA Human
Nutrition Research Center on Aging at Tufts University in
Boston, University Medical Center Utrecht in the Netherlands,
Boston University of Medicine and Folkhalsan Research Center
in Finland.-- analyzed data from the Framingham (Massachsetts)
Offspring study. Based on food frequency questionnaires, the
researchers estimated the amounts of phytoestrogens in the
diets of 964 postmenopausal participants and found that the
foods these women ate did not contain nearly enough plant
estrogens to offset the decline in the body's production of
estrogen that comes with age.
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