Yogurt Shown to Reduce Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes
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George Doyle/Stockbyte/Thinkstock(NEW YORK) — Not a yogurt fan? Here’s information that make might you one.
According to researchers at the Harvard School of Public Health, eating yogurt daily might help lower the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease.
Lead author Mu Chen said her research was based on three separate large studies involving a total of 200,000 men and women ages 25-to-75 for as long as 30 years. About 15,150 people overall were diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Although dairy consumption itself was not associated with either an increase or decrease in the risk of contracting diabetes, Chen and her team learned that people who ate 12 ounces of yogurt daily, about two regular containers worth, lowered their risk of developing the disease by 18 percent.
Although Chen said there is no definitive proof that yogurt will prevent type 2 diabetes, “Some mechanisms suggest that yogurt is special,” he said. “There is some research suggesting that the probiotic bacteria in yogurt may be beneficial.”
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