This study followed up 1550 newborns for five years, and found that children who ate yogurt every day before the age of one year were significantly less likely to develop atopic dermatitis or food allergies in the future. The researchers concluded that it should be the protective effect of probiotics (mainly lactic acid bacteria) in yogurt.
Eating yogurt can prevent food allergies, which sounds tempting, but don't rush to the supermarket to sweep the goods. There are still some things that are not clear in this study:
Although it is found that eating yogurt every day can prevent food allergies, there is no clear explanation about how much yogurt to eat or what kind of yogurt to eat every day.
This study tells us that eating yogurt can "reduce" the chances of food allergy and atopic dermatitis, but it can't "avoid" the occurrence of food allergy and atopic dermatitis. In other words, even eating yogurt every day may lead to allergies in the future.
Therefore, for this information, our correct interpretation should be: if children do not exclude eating yogurt, they can eat a little every day (try to choose original sugar-free items); But if children don't like it, they don't have to be too reluctant. Secondly, we should realize that eating yogurt is "reducing the chance of allergies" rather than "avoiding the occurrence of allergies".
This article comes from Dr. Huang's blog.