Nutrition Action Healthletter

Yogurt: bacteria to basics. (yogurt may help prevent or treat certain health problems)

Nutrition Action Healthletter | September 1, 1993 | Copyright

Cancer, high cholesterol, diarrhea, infections. You name it, somebody says that yogurt can prevent or cure it.

Is there anything to yogurt's reputation? There sure is. But that's the easy part. Making sure that your yogurt can do what the yogurt used by researchers does is another story.

Bulgaricus & Friends. It's the two bacteria that turn milk into yogurt that provide yogurt's clearest health benefit.

Lactobacillus bulgaricus and Streptococcus thermophilus help digest lactose, the milk sugar that about a quarter of all American adults (especially…

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