In other nonsense news, a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition finds that people who eat a lot of unfermented soy products, such as tofu or soy milk, have a 23 percent lower risk of lung cancer than those who eat the least amount. The results were obtained after researchers from the Shanghai Jiaotong University School of Medicine pooled findings from 11 observational studies. However, the protective effects of soy held only for Asian women who had never smoked.
ACSH's Dr. Gilbert Ross was shocked to learn that Reuters Health had even bothered to run a story about such a senseless study. That s quite irresponsible of them," he says, "since smokers who just quickly read the headline will be misled into thinking that soy products might help protect them from lung cancer. The actual number of people protected by soy from lung cancer non-smoking Asian women amounts to a tiny figure, even if the study s conclusions are technically true.
