Interesting report:

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> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 19:12:32 -0700
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: NNF - Tofu and Brain Aging
> From: [log in to unmask]
>
> April 19, 2000
>
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> Today's Topic: Tofu and Brain Aging
> A study of Japanese-American men in Hawaii indicates
> that those who
> ate the most tofu during middle age had the greatest
> decline in brain
> function and brain size when they became elderly.
> Diets of over
> 8,000 men were assessed in 1965 and various tests of
> cognitive
> function and brain size were made in the 1980's.
> Those eating tofu
> two or more times per week fared the worst.
>
> This finding was the opposite of what was predicted
> by the
> researchers, who expected tofu to protect against
> some signs of
> aging. A smaller number of wives were also tested,
> and a similar
> statistical association was found. This was reported
> in the April
> 2000 Journal of the American College of Nutrition
> (
>
http://www.am-coll-nutr.org/jacn/vol_19/no_2/pg242.htm
> ).
>
> HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The article and an
> accompanying editorial pointed out that the men who
> ate the most tofu
> were more likely to have spent more childhood years
> in Japan and in
> greater poverty. It is certainly possible that a
> nutritionally
> deprived childhood was more responsible for aging of
> the brain than
> was tofu intake. The authors pointed out that age,
> strokes and other
> factors were much stronger predictors of decline
> than was tofu
> intake.

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