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sorghum
Mon, 15 Nov 2010 01:20:15 +0000

Many Asians eat a lot of Yam (sweet potato), and they think it may be why they don’t have as many menopause symptoms.



You have to be careful on terminology. Yam (Dioscorea) is NOT the same as sweet potato (Ipomoea) although it is a very very common mistake to use the words interchangeably, particularly in the US. There are many medicinal uses of real yam, even as a source of steroids with contraceptive and other uses.

Sweet potato can have a lot of antioxidants. Some of the claimed benefits come from eating the leaves, not the tubers.