Soy and Menstrual Pain

Posted by Chantel M. Contributors: CN designed and coordinated the study and had overall responsibility for data analysis and writing the paper. KH and NS coordinated for sample collection. HS helped to design the study and undertook data interpretation.

In a study of "Associations of menstrual pain with intakes of soy, fat and dietary fiber in Japanese women" by Guarantor: C Nagata., posted in European Journal and clinical Nutrition, researcher found that Intake of dietary fiber was significantly inversely correlated with the menstrual pain scale (r=-0.12, P=0.04) after controlling for age, smoking status, age at menarche and total energy intake. Neither soy nor fat intake was significantly correlated with menstrual pain after controlling for the covariate with the conclusion of : The cross-sectional difference in dietary fiber intake across the level of menstrual pain was small in magnitude but warrants further studies