Can Yogurt Reduce Your Risk of Colon Cancer?
Humans have been consuming yogurt for millennia. Ancient texts dating back to 6,000 B.C. reference its health-promoting properties. Now, a new study finds one more benefit to a long-term yogurt habit: It may protect against certain types of aggressive colon cancer through changes in the gut microbiome.
In the study, researchers at Mass General Brigham looked at data from more than 150,000 people who were followed for at least three decades. They found that people who regularly ate two or more servings of yogurt a week had lower rates of certain types of colorectal cancer.
“Yogurt may be good for maintaining a good microbiome in our body,” says Dr. Tomotaka Ugai, a co-senior author of the study. He’s an investigator at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and a department associate at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.
Excerpted from NPR
