I like yogurt. But do probiotics – those “friendly” bacteria in yogurt and increasingly added to other foods – do anything for you beyond making yogurt taste good? I wrote about probiotics in What to Eat at some length. Tara Parker-Pope has a quick summary of the state of the research…
Funny that this article suggests that some probiotics can prevent diarrhoea, when the advertising seems to hint much more at alleviating “bloating” – which implies constipation rather than diarrhoea…
Read the full article : Probiotics: Looking Underneath the Yogurt Label
BBC Radio 4’s Case Notes talks to Chakravarthi Rajkumar, Professor of Geriatrics and Stroke Medicine at Brighton and Sussex Medical School, who has a special interest in the use of probiotics to reduce some of the unwanted side effects of antibiotics in his elderly patients.
Marnie Chesterton reports from Utrect in the Netherlands, where trials…
A TV advert which asserted that Actimel yogurt supported children’s natural defences against disease has been banned by the advertising watchdog.
The Advertising Standards Authority ruled that claims that it could help protect school-age youngsters against illness were not supported by evidence.
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