Yogurt Consumption Linked with Reduced Risk of Developing Type 2 Diabetes

Eating a 28 g serving of yogurt every day was associated with an 18% lower risk of developing type 2 diabetes in a meta-analysis of 14 prospective cohorts with 459,790 participants and 35,863 incident type 2 diabetes cases. Other dairy foods and consumption of total dairy were not appreciably associated with diabetes incidence. The BMC Medicinefindings suggest that randomized clinical trials are warranted to examine the causal effects of yogurt consumption on diabetes as well as the potential of probiotics to affect body weight and insulin resistance.