How yoghurt is the new superfood in the fight against diabetes

Research suggests that two spoonfuls a day of yoghurt reduces the risk of developing diabetes.

16:18 25 November 2014

A recent study conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health in the United States has suggested that consuming two spoonfuls of yoghurt per day can greatly reduce the risk of developing diabetes.

The research claims that eating 28g of yoghurt daily cuts the odds of developing the disease by almost a fifth.

US researchers made the conclusion through the study of three long-term investigations into diet and health which were participated by a total of almost 200,000 men and women. The participants were studied for up to 30 years and provided detailed information on their diet and nutritional habits.

They were all free from diabetes at the start of the study but more than 15,000 developed the disease by the end. Analysis suggests that eating yoghurt seemed to stave off the disease.

Senior researcher Frank Hu (CORR) said: ‘We found that higher intake of yoghurt is associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes, whereas other dairy foods and consumption of total dairy did not show this association.

‘The consistent findings for yoghurt suggest that it can be incorporated into a healthy dietary pattern.’