Is Soy a Joy for Diabetics, Their Weight and Blood Sugar Levels?
An astonishing number of Type 2 diabetics find that soy foods are exactly what they need to bring their blood sugar levels into good control. An equally astonishing number of Type 2 diabetics insist that soy makes them feel sluggish and put on weight. Can they both be right? What is the Best Type of Soy for Type 2 Diabetics? How people with Type 2 diabetes react to soy seems to depend a great deal on the kind of soy they eat. Highly processed forms of soy such as soy burgers and soy milk, concentrate the estrogen-like compounds in soy known as isoflavones. These compounds, which include daidzein and genistein, can lock onto the receptor sites on cells throughout your body; cells that normally respond to estrogen. If you are a woman over 50, that might mean you have fewer hot flashes. But if you are a man over 50, that might mean you have a lower sex drive and a tendency to grow breast tissue… although consuming highly processed soy foods just once or twice a week should not be a prob
