Yogurt could reduce the risk of a specific type of colon cancer by 20 percent, according to a new study that tracked more than 130,000 health care professionals for decades.
People who ate at least two servings of yogurt weekly had significantly lower rates of colorectal cancer through changes in the gut.
The findings provide evidence of yogurt’s potential role in cancer prevention, according to the study authors.
“Our study provides unique evidence about the potential benefit of yogurt,” corresponding author Dr. Shuji Ogino, chief of the Program in Molecular Pathological Epidemiology, department of pathology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital said in a statement….