Taking one a day can reduce the risk of developing this disease by almost 20%.
A yogurt a day could be a very healthy way of preventing obesity.It is assured by an investigation by a team from the Harvard Public Health School (USA) that has seen that a high yogurt consumption, at least one a day, can be associated with a lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
It has long known that yogurt can be an important part of a healthy diet.In fact, some previous research suggests that calcium, magnesium or certain fatty acids present in dairy products can reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes, and it has been seen that the probiotic bacteria found in yogurt improves fat profilesand the antioxidant state of these patients.
These new data that appear in "BMC Medicine" are added to those published at the beginning of the year in the "Diabetology" magazine, a work based on the study 'Epic-Norfolk', which included more than 25,000 men and women living inNorfolk, the United Kingdom who assured that high yogurt consumption could reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by 28%.
Life habits
On this occasion, researchers at the Harvard Public Health School have analyzed three prospective studies in which the lifestyle and medical history of more than 400,000 health professionals were followed, including doctors, nursing staff, pharmaceuticals, dentists, dentists,Podiators or veterinarians.At the beginning of each study, the participants completed a questionnaire to collect basic information about their life habits and subsequently were followed every two years, with a monitoring rate of more than 90%.The participants were excluded if they had diabetes, cardiovascular disease or cancer at the beginning of the study, and also if they did not include any information on dairy consumption, which reduced the sample to almost half.
In total, researchers identified 15,156 cases of type 2 diabetes and found that the total consumption of dairy products could not be associated with the risk of developing the disease.But when a more thorough analysis of food (whole or skimmed milk, cheese and yogurt) was carried out.And by adjusting it with other indicators such as Age or Body Mass Index (BMI), experts saw that high yogurt consumption could be associated with a lower risk of diabetes.
In addition, the authors carried out a subsequent meta-analysis to incorporate new results from other studies published until March 2013, which also investigated the association between dairy products and type 2 diabetes, and saw that 28 grams of yogurt per day could reduce up to a18% The risk of developing the disease."We have found that a greater yogurt intake is associated with a lower risk of type 2 diabetes, while the consumption of other foods did not show this association," says Frank Hu, author of the study.
