Soy-heavy vegan diet may reduce hot flushes in postmenopausal women

Following a low-fat vegan diet along with eating 86 grams of soybeans daily reduced the frequency of hot flushes by 78 per cent in postmenopausal women

By Grace Wade

Following a low-fat vegan diet, including eating about 86 grams of soybeans daily, reduces hot flushes in postmenopausal women.

Previous research has suggested that dietary changes may help relieve these symptoms. To investigate this further, Neal Barnard at The George Washington University in Washington DC and his colleagues recruited 71 postmenopausal women who experienced two or more moderate-to-severe hot flushes a day.

For 12 weeks, 38 participants followed a vegan diet where roughly 10 per cent of …