Rumors about the benefits of yogurt turned out to be greatly exaggerated
Scientists have found that eating yogurt is useless
SLY_G, Geektimes
Urgently sell shares of companies that produce sour milk. Spanish scientists from the University of Madrid, after examining more than 4,000 people, came to a disappointing conclusion: regular consumption of yogurt does not affect human health in any way (Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology, Regular consumption of yogurt does not improve health).
4,445 Spanish adults took part in the testing, which was conducted for 3.5 years. His results are published in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics (Esther Lopez-Garcia et al., Habitual Yogurt Consumption and Health-Related Quality of Life: A Prospective Cohort Study – VM). It was conducted due to the fact that since 2006, according to European laws, any statements about the benefits of food must be confirmed by scientific research.
"Regular consumption of yogurt could not be associated with the quality of life in terms of health," explained the author of the study, Esther Lopez–Garcia. "Compared to people who did not consume yogurt, those who ate it regularly did not show any significant health improvements according to the results of our tests, and although there was a slight intellectual improvement, it fits into the statistical error."
The scientist explained that although dairy products are traditionally included in the diet of the so-called "healthy diet", earlier studies were conducted only on the complex effect of this diet on the body, and research on its individual components has not yet been done.
At the beginning of the 20th century, yogurt was popularized in Europe by Danon, and in the USA by Colombo Yogurt. Yogurt manufacturers have always emphasized its health benefits in advertising the product, although neither the exact mechanism of this beneficial effect, nor its actual presence, have ever been scientifically found or confirmed.
It would be interesting to conduct a study related to other representatives of fermented dairy products, in particular our native kefir. We are waiting for scientific papers of Russian biologists.
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