Infant girls who are given baby formula containing soy could be at risk for severe menstrual cramping later in life, a new study has found.
Researchers studied more than 1,500 African American women to study the effects of soy formula, following up on previous studies that had focused mostly on white women. As Reutersreported, they found that babies who were given soy formula had a 40 percent greater risk of using hormonal contraception for severe menstrual pain and a 50 percent greater risk of severe menstrual discomfort during periods.
“We observed that soy formula feeding during infancy was associated with several indicators of severe menstrual pain in reproductive age women,” said Kristen Upson, a researcher with the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences.
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