Title: YOGURT: Overview, Uses, Side Effects, Precautions, Interactions, Dosing and Reviews
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Content: Research shows that eating a yogurt with live bacterial cultures (Activia) can increase bowel movements by about one movement per week in people with constipation. It also seems to reduce straining and pain during bowel movements. High levels of cholesterol or other fats (lipids) in the blood (hyperlipidemia). Taking yogurt with live bacterial cultures seems to decrease cholesterol in patients with borderline to moderately 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. Inability to properly digest the sugar lactose (lactose intolerance). Eating yogurt with live bacterial cultures seems to improve lactose tolerance in children and adults who are unable to fully digest lactose. Vaginal yeast infections. Taking yogurt by mouth seems to prevent vaginal yeast infections. Applying a mixture of yogurt and honey inside the vagina seems to reduce symptoms and help treat vaginal yeast infections.