In a message dated 5/11/99 5:01:41 AM Pacific Daylight Time, [log in to unmask]
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> >... 4.Phytic acid protects against the two biggest cancer killers in
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>  men and women, namely breast, and prostatic cancer.
>

Great post Amadeus...thank you......I picked out the above only to say that
this is why soy is being touted as the cancer fighting wonder
product...particularly for women.

I just came back from an appt with a dietician.  We discussed phytates.  She
mentioned a couple of isolated tribes in the middle east that eat a great
deal of unleavened bread and came down with a zinc deficiency.  She mentioned
that this is not something to worry about in this country, we neither eat
that much unleavened bread, nor are as isolated as they are.  And even there
it's rare.

Anna L. Abrante
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........diets.....aka.....smoke 'n' mirrors.....