Study finds soy gave rats metabolic boost

Soy in your diet may not make you eat less overall, but it appears to make the body burn up what you consume to a greater degree and store less of it as fat.

That increase in metabolism identified in a University of Illinois study wasn't what UI Professor Elvira de Mejia and colleagues expected.

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