date:May 12, 2012
quality in men eating yogurt.
Probiotic organisms
Erdman added that she and co-author, evolutionary geneticist Eric Alm, believed that the results were due to probiotic organisms in the yogurt; they initially began research last summer to better understand the effects of yogurt on obesity.
Taking a cohort of 40 male and 40 female mice, the scientists fed them with either a high-fat, low-fibre, low-nutrient diet (to mimic junk food) or standard mouse meals.
Thereafter, they supplemented half