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Yogurt is not only nutritious, but also contains lactic acid bacteria, so it has health care function. These functions are:
1, maintain the ecological balance of intestinal flora, form a biological barrier, and inhibit harmful bacteria from invading the intestine.
2. Prevent constipation by producing a large number of short-chain fatty acids to promote intestinal peristalsis and a large number of bacteria growth and changing osmotic pressure.
3. Yogurt contains a variety of enzymes, which can effectively promote the digestion and absorption of nutrients.
4. Yogurt can inhibit the growth of saprophytic bacteria in the intestine and inhibit the food in the intestine from spoiling and producing toxins, thus preventing the liver and brain from being damaged by these toxins.
5. Yogurt can inhibit the growth of saprophytic bacteria and some harmful bacteria in the intestine. So as to inhibit carcinogens produced by these bacteria and achieve the purpose of preventing cancer.
6, improve human immune function, lactic acid bacteria can produce some substances that enhance immune function, which can improve human immunity and prevent diseases. Yogurt containing a large number of active bacteria is helpful to improve lactose intolerance, constipation, diarrhea, enteritis, helicobacter pylori infection and other diseases.
7. The Human Nutrition Research Center of the United States Department of Agriculture is conducting research on the elderly at Tufts University. Researcher Jean Mayer said that yogurt can not only improve the intestinal environment, but also improve human immunity.
8. Coincidentally, a study in Taiwan Province Province also found that yogurt can improve the therapeutic effect of some anti-inflammatory drugs.
9. Yogurt can lower blood pressure. Dr Alvaro A Liang, an epidemiologist at Harvard School of Public Health, said that the study found that people who drink 2-3 servings or more of yogurt every day have a 50% lower risk of hypertension than those who don't drink yogurt.
References:
Yogurt-Baidu Encyclopedia