Miss Welty may have been a regional writer but she was never a provincial one.

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Welty told CNN the women in the study also experienced an average 54 percent reduction in hot flashes.

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Welty said she suspects other improvements will be seen through further analysis.

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Welty said her son never met a tree he didn't want to climb and was so strong he could do pull-ups with two fingers.

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Welty said she believes eating the soy nuts throughout the day helped reduce hot flashes because the level of soy in the women's bodies was kept even.

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We also spend a lot of time looking at our art, which includes photography by Rachel Perry Welty, a small sculpture by Mark di Suvero and mixed media by El Anatsui.

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Miss Welty's ear was as acute as her eye.

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In her travels, Miss Welty, the product of an upper-class home with servants, was shocked by the poverty of the black sharecroppers and white dirt farmers she saw and talked to in rural Mississippi.

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However, the lead researcher of the study, preventive cardiologist Dr. Francine Welty, cautioned that the findings must be confirmed in a larger number of women for a longer amount of time than the study involved.

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