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Permalink Reply by Timothy on May 15, 2012 at 2:41pm

My daughter had soy formula for the same reasons that yours did. We transitioned her to cows milk at 2. She is 7.5 now and no signs of diabetes.
Although I stopped giving her soy because I was worried it might cause early puberty.
I think everything in moderation is fine.
Formula is never in moderation though as it is usually 100% of her diet.

I know many women that pump and mix it with soy. because they can't make enough milk.

You need to be aware though that people try to make links to everything.

Type 1 rates have not increased since soy formula came into use relatively recently.

People blamed cow based formula for T1 back in the 70's.

I don't think I even heard of it before say 1990, even thought I'm sure it existed before then, it was certainly not in widespread use.

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Permalink Reply by peggysue on May 16, 2012 at 2:10pm

I'm sure there is not..I must admit that I grew up with soy products cause my family is from Indonesia and Iam a vegetarian. But I'm the only one in the family that has diabetes. I do know it is good to eat soy products when you are a diabetic cause it lowers the cholesterol..They don't know what causes type 1, I got it from a virus..and a lot of diabetics with type 1 got sick by a virus..could be from a simple cold..

It does suck right? Especially when your daughter is only 11 years old, how is she dealing with it?

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