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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

The benefits of breastfeeding are well documented, but researchers have found a more specific advantage: Nursing directly from the breast is linked to a lower risk of obesity in babies than being bottle fed — even if it’s with pumped breast milk. While overall, giving babies breastmilk via any method — breastfeeding, pumping, supplementing with