Yogurt Can Now Prevent Diabetes

Recently, there have been findings of coffee serving as a beverage to prevent the risk of having diabetes, now yogurt is in the picture as well.

If it takes six cups of coffee a day to prevent diabetes, with yogurt, it just takes four or five times a week. A new study has found that eating yogurt four or five times a week may actually lower your risk for developing a specific kind of diabetes - Type 2 diabetes.

United Kingdom researchers from the British Medical Journal chose 4,000 subjects and looked at their diets and eating habits, whilst following them for 11 years. The researchers found out that the people with the highest yogurt consumption had lower risks of developing diabetes by 24 percent as compared to people who didn't eat yummy stuff.

The study required the participants to consume an average of four and a half 4-ounce servings of low-fat yogurt a week, and the risk reduction to these people was astounding.

A study published just last Wednesday, February 5 in the journal Diabetologia found a connection between consumption of yogurt and lowered threats of diabetes.

Researchers said that one of the reasons why eating yogurt lowers the risk of diabetes is because people who eat more yogurt are less prone to eat unhealthy desserts and snacks.

They found out that replacing a serving of chips with a serving of yogurt reduces the risk of diabetes by 47 percent. The researchers said that "Yogurt is a fermented dairy product, and contains a specific type of vitamin K, as well as probiotics, both of which have been suggested to protect against diabetes."

According to www.healthintelligence.com, it is estimated globally that around 382 million people suffer from diabetes. North America and the Caribbean is the region with the highest prevalence, with 36,755 people with diabetes, that's 11 percent. This is followed by the Middle East and North Africa with 34,571 people with diabetes, or 9.2 percent of the total population of people with diabetes.