Title: Yogurt: Health Benefits, Uses, Side Effects, Dosage & Interactions
Headings: Yogurt
Yogurt
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What is Yogurt?
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How does Yogurt work?
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Dosing considerations for Yogurt.
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Content: Adding yogurt that contains lactobacillus or bifidobacterium to standard triple drug treatment seems to help patients stick to their treatment plan. This makes the treatment more effective in killing the H. pylori bacteria. However, consuming yogurt alone without standard triple-drug therapy does not appear to kill H. pylori. High cholesterol levels. Taking yogurt that contains Lactobacillus acidophilus and a combination of Enterococcus faecium and Streptococcus thermophilus seems to decrease cholesterol in patients with borderline to moderate high cholesterol levels. This type of yogurt seems to lower total and “bad” low-density lipoprotein ( LDL) cholesterol but does not raise “good” high-density lipoprotein ( HDL) cholesterol. QUESTION
Pancreatitis is inflammation of an organ in the abdomen called the pancreas. See Answer
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Asthma. Diarrhea in malnourished infants and children. Insufficient Evidence to Rate Effectiveness for...
Bacterial vaginosis.