YOGURT HELPS PREVENT COLON CANCER IN MEN?
GASTROENTEROLOGY NERD ALERT:
YOGURT HELPS PREVENT COLON CANCER IN MEN?
Check out the link from Med Page Today about a new study in the journal Gut that has found that men who consumed at least two weekly servings of yogurt had lower rates of conventional and especially serrated polyps compared with those who consumed no yogurt.
“Men’s risk reduction for conventional polyps was 19%, and 26% for polyps with higher malignant potential, reported Yin Cao, ScD, MPH, of Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, and colleagues in Gut.
No associations between yogurt consumption and polyp incidence were found in women, however.
Cao and colleagues suggested that yogurt may reduce adenoma risk through anti-inflammatory effects on the colonic mucosa and mitigation of gut barrier dysfunction.
“As male patients with adenoma present with increased gut permeability, yogurt may benefit men more compared with women,” they wrote.
…Waqar Qureshi, MD, of Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, cautioned that the analysis did not really establish a link between yogurt consumption and polyp prevention. “It’s just possible that men who ate a lot of yogurt also had a very healthy lifestyle that avoided established risk factors for colon cancer,” said Qureshi, who played no role in this research.
He told MedPage Today that individuals’ overall diet overrides everything else. “There’s no question that yogurt, especially fat-free or low-fat, is a healthy food and good for you, but unless you stop eating steaks several times week, no amount of yogurt is going to help you.””
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