Yoghurt, better known as "yogurt," is a dairy product made from the bacterial fermentation of milk. However this may sound a bit unappetizing to some, most people recognize yogurt as a great dairy treat suitable for breakfast, as a snack or a dessert. Aside from its popular taste, texture and characteristic tanginess, yogurt has been found to have numerous health benefits
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Yogurt helps our colon health, boost immune system among others.  Yogurt is a top health food and the reasons are;

1. Yogurt is easier to digest than milk.

Many people, who cannot tolerate milk, either because of protein allergy or lactose intolerance, can enjoy yogurt. The culturing process makes yogurt more digestible than milk. The live active cultures create lactase, the enzyme lactose-intolerant people lack, and another enzyme contained in some yogurts (beta-galactosidase) also helps improve lactose absorption in lactase-deficient persons.

2. Yogurt contributes to colon health.

There’s a medical truism that states: “You’re only as healthy as your colon.” When eating yogurt, you care for your colon in two ways. First, yogurt contains lacto bacteria, intestines-friendly bacterial cultures that foster a healthy colon which lower the risk of colon cancer.

3. Yogurt improves the bioavailability of other nutrients.

Culturing of yogurt increases the absorption of calcium and B-vitamins. The lactic acid in the yogurt aids in the digestion of the milk calcium, making it easier to absorb.

4. Yogurt can boost immunity.

The bacterial cultures in yogurt have also been shown to stimulate infection-fighting white cells in the bloodstream. study have shown yogurt cultures to contain a factor that has anti-tumor effects in experimental animals.

5. Yogurt aids healing after intestinal infections.

Yogurt contains less lactose and more lactase which is usually well-tolerated by healing intestines and is a popular “healing food” for diarrhea.yogurt also minimize the effects of the antibiotic on the friendly bacteria in the intestines.

6. Yogurt can decrease yeast infections.

Research has shown that eating eight ounces of yogurt that contains live and active cultures daily reduces the amount of yeast colonies in the vagina and decreases the incidence of vaginal yeast infections.

7. Yogurt is a rich source of calcium.

An 8-ounce serving of most yogurts provides 450 mg. of calcium, one-half of a child’s RDA and 30 to 40 percent of the adult RDA for calcium. Because the live-active cultures in yogurt increase the absorption of calcium, an 8-ounce serving of yogurt gets more calcium into the body than the same volume of milk can.

8. Yogurt is an excellent source of protein.

In fact, eight ounces of yogurt that contains live and active cultures, contains 20 percent more protein than the same volume of milk (10 grams versus 8 grams). The proteins in yogurt are often called “predigested.”

9. Yogurt can lower cholesterol.

There are a few studies that have shown that yogurt can reduce the blood cholesterol. This may be because the live cultures in yogurt can assimilate the cholesterol or because yogurt binds bile acids, (which has also been shown to lower cholesterol), or both.

10. Yogurt is a “grow food.”

The two nutritional properties of yogurt help intestinal absorption which is the easier digestibility of proteins and lactic acid in yogurt increases the absorption of minerals for growth.



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