If there’s one super food I have to choose for optimum nutritional health, it would be Yogurt. Besides being loaded with bone building calcium, high protein, essential B vitamins, it is loaded with healthy immune boosting, friendly bacteria that can keep our gastrointestinal tract happy.
Here are other reasons that make yogurt a super food:
Yogurt is easily digestible
People with any allergies to cow’s milk, either because of a protein allergy or lactose intolerance, can enjoy yogurt. The culturing process of yogurt makes it easier to absorb and less allergenic.
Yogurt makes your colon happy
Yogurt contains lactobacteria, intestines-friendly bacterial cultures that foster a healthy colon, and even lower the risk of colon cancer. Lactobacteria, especially acidophilus, promotes the growth of healthy bacteria in the colon and reduces the conversion of bile into carcinogenic bile acids. The more of these intestines-friendly bacteria that are present in your colon, the lower the chance of colon diseases.
Yogurt is an immune booster
Research shows that when two cups of live-culture yogurt are consumed daily for three months, higher levels of immunity boosting interferon are produced. The bacterial cultures in yogurt have also been shown to stimulate infection-fighting white cells in the bloodstream.
Yogurt fights yeast infections
Research has shown that eating eight ounces of yogurt that contains live and active cultures daily reduces the amount of yeast colonies in the vagina and decreases the incidence of vaginal yeast infections.
Yogurt can lower cholesterol
Few studies have shown that yogurt can reduce the blood cholesterol. This may be because the live cultures in yogurt can assimilate the cholesterol or because yogurt binds bile acids, (which has also been shown to lower cholesterol), or both.
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