
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: TUESDAY, March 27, 1990                   TAG: 9003272384
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A2   EDITION: METRO 
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DATELINE: DAYTONA BEACH, FLA.                                LENGTH: Short

STUDY: SOYBEANS MAY LOWER BREAST CANCER

Soybean products may help prevent breast cancer, according to preliminary studies released Monday.

Rats fed a soybean-containing diet showed lower breast-cancer rates in a laboratory experiment, said Stephen Barnes, an associate professor of pharmacology and biochemistry at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

He tried the experiment after noting that soybeans are prominent in diets of Asian countries that have lower breast-cancer rates than the United States, he said.

But he stressed that his work only studied rats, and his hypothesis is not ready for people.

- Associated Press

by CNB